Alice and her Wonderland friends are not the only ones to have thrown a Mad Hatter’s tea party…
Here are some imaginative people who have combined two of life’s great pleasures: ...
Audubon’s four volume tome: a rare treasure, and the world’s most expensive book. Image copyright: Google.
There has been numerous intriguing items belonging to writers and fascinating books that have been ...
Many writers have now had their birthdays marked with a decorative Google Doodle: from Jules Verne’s interactive, underwater themed doodle to J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan becoming acquainted ...
Anyone familiar with Bathsheba in the Bible and depictions in art will have an insight into her namesake’s character in Zoë Heller’s novel.
We all know that novelists devote a staggering ...
All May and June: The Rebel Dining Society’s ‘The Green Hour’ Dinner, £40 The Rebel Dining Society returns with the second instalment of The Green Hour, an exciting collaboration with ...
Photograph (c) Paige Sinkler
The other night I was driving home from college, ruminating about my first draft of a short story. Everyone was behaving too reasonably. Someone should be glum. ...
The BBC adaptation of the Crimson Petal and the White does not provide a neatly-wrapped ending for audiences. Image: BBC.
The BBC’s adaptation of Michel Faber’s novel, The Crimson Petal and ...
Aldous Huxley reckoned science and literature were alike because both observe the world and attempt to interpret it in words. Fair enough, but when science is described in literature, there’s ...
So far in my writing, I’ve tended to trust in the belief of James Joyce: “In the particular is contained the universal.” But in seeking publication for my own work, ...
It’s the first time I’ve been to the Imperial War Museum since I was 11 and I’m a bit disorientated, so I ask a member of staff where the Once ...
It is often said that the job of the poet is not to tell you what she felt, but to recreate the event or experience as closely as possible so ...
Brighton provides the atmospheric setting for Greene’s novel and its adaptations
A new film adaptation has brought attention once again to Graham Green’s 1937 masterpiece Brighton Rock. I ...
Event Listings, February 2011 From Egyptian mummies to the daddy of folk, via French farce and classical music, there’s so much more to February than hearts and flowers. Wander lonely ...
It’s official: Amazon now sells more e-books in the US than it does paperbacks. The gradual disappearance of the physical book could be the long-awaited solution to that old problem: ...
I bought a new diary today. One of my New Year’s resolutions, probably like thousands of other people across the country, was to get into the discipline of writing a ...
I think that horror has traditionally been considered a “minor” genre, especially in Spain. Sometimes we seem to forget that horror is one of the oldest genres in the history ...
Money and sport go together. In the last few weeks, as the credibility of cricket wobbled under allegations of corruption and match-fixing , I’ve been reading the funny and satirically ...
After reading the excellent collection of stories in this month’s North London issue, I’ve been trying to think of other short stories I’ve read set in North London. It was tougher ...
It’s not often I’ve heard an audience at a fiction event let out a collective gasp of horror. It’s a thrilling sound, and last week it reinvigorated my passion for ...
My short story diet this week has been An Elegy for Easterly, the debut collection by Petina Gappah, published last year and winner of the Guardian First Book Award. The ...