Features

The Diary: Shane Meadows; Alan Bennett; Playboy Bunny; Handel; Alice Walker

Friday, 16 April 2010

A degree of credit for British director

One Minute With: Ronald Frame

Friday, 16 April 2010

Observations: From hip-hip to comic poetry

Friday, 16 April 2010

Scroobius Pip, one half of the alternative hip-hop duo with Dan Le Sac, has always been a poet first and rapper second. So it's no surprise that the street versifier has published a book of his writings. Its format, though, could not be more different from Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters; Pip has come out with a comic book of verse.

Champions of the word: Treasures from Berlin to Bengal feature on the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize shortlist

Friday, 16 April 2010

For ten years the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize has been running in its present form. Over that time, and with loyal and generous support from Arts Council England and Champagne Taittinger, it has grown into the most highly esteemed, and eagerly awaited, prize for fiction in translation in Britain – and maybe far beyond.

Boyd Tonkin: When authors join the campaign trail

Friday, 16 April 2010

The Week In Books

Lionel Shriver: 'I had to get to grips with death'

Friday, 16 April 2010

The latest novel from the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin was inspired by the terminal illness of a friend who refused to accept that she was dying

Over the rainbow: South African writers take centre-stage at the London Book Fair

Friday, 16 April 2010

More than 15 years after the end of apartheid, what have they made of the era of freedom?

The poetry of courtship: Plath and Hughes caught on tape

Thursday, 15 April 2010

Rare interviews with tragic couple give insight into early days of their marriage

Gossip girl: Kitty Kelley spills her celebrity secrets

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Guy Adams: Writer Kitty Kelley's latest subject, Oprah Winfrey, has been the toughest to crack

Forgotten authors No 53: Michael Green

Sunday, 11 April 2010

Humour is an unrewarded genre; publishers like their fiction to have gravitas, which wins awards and looks important. Humour neither ages nor travels well, but part of every bestseller list consists of those slender joke volumes you see stacked by the checkout.