Features

From paint to print: artist and novelist Rebecca Hunt

Boyd Tonkin: Art-school novels in the frame

Where do new writers grow best? There is, as publishers and agents may soon discover, a fresh answer to the literary gardener's perennial query about the cultivation of talent.

Inside Features

Indy Choice: Best of the new books

Friday, 15 October 2010

Enrich your mind with a selection of the latest fiction and non fiction books.

The diary: Andrew Motion; Booker Prize; Steve Lazarides; Ed Vaizey; Nerve

Friday, 15 October 2010

Booker exiles

One Minute With: Michael Wood, historian

Friday, 15 October 2010

The mystery and poetry of the towpath

Friday, 15 October 2010

I was inclined to be poetical about the Grand Canal," said Nathaniel Hawthorne in his New-England Magazine sketch "The Canal Boat", from 1835. It's insightful writing, in which he describes the canal wending its way through each town as "the most fertilizing of all fluids" and feeding their "masses of brick and stone, their churches and theatres, their business and hubbub, their luxury and refinement, their gay dames and polished citizens – to spring up, till, in time, the wondrous stream may flow between two continuous lines of buildings, through one thronged street."

On The Agenda: Save the Postcard campaign; Chocolate Week; Couture in the 21st Century; John Lennon; National Poetry Day; Shoot Nations

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Black culture celebrated in west London; ukulele culture celebrated in West Sussex

The 50 best bookshops

Saturday, 9 October 2010

From Hackney to Hay-on-Wye, Rhiannon Batten browses the country’s best bookshops and uncovers counterculture classics and coffee-table tomes in friendly outlets with local colour