As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties?
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You can lay many faults at the door of Sir Andrew Motion but plagiarism is not among them
Why does discrimination against crime writing still exist?
First Lynda La Plante attacks novels written by celebrities. "Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe," she said at the Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards earlier this month, singling out Katie Price for special opprobrium
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the postal strike (and I am sure there are rights and wrong on both sides), I've already given up on my post. I don't recall it ever being so inefficient in my lifetime.
Never mind the six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Nicky Haslam's forthcoming memoirs, Redeeming Features, has set a whole new benchmark for the small world phenomenon
The Connaught's new makeover has added to its elegant charm, says Sebastian Shakespeare
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history
Tatler may be an ageing grande dame at 300 years old but she is as relevant today as she has always been
Here we go again. The very week a nude photograph of actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition, on police advice, we have Anna Friel appearing naked on the West End stage
I am in mourning for one of my favourite Sixties pop songs, California Dreamin’, by The Mamas and the Papas
It is up to our border controls to stop illegal immigrants coming here in the first place. That's what I pay taxes for
If you are lucky enough to be invited to the GQ Men of the Year Awards - I was - then a word of advice. Make sure your arrival on the red carpet doesn't coincide with that of the beautiful people
London knows how to party even when the chips are down, and we Brits know how to shake our booty with the best of them
Gordon Brown and David Cameron should publish their full summer reading lists and be damned. The reading public has a right to know
Figures from Radio Joint Audience Research reveal that Radio 3 has broken the two million listener mark and that Radio 4 is reaching more than 10 million people a week
For all his partying with friends in high places, Andrew Roberts has an insatiable thirst for work. Here we pin down the bestseller about town
Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work
Sebastian Shakespeare wonders who will emerge as the pre-eminent diarist of the early 21st century, talks about festivals and celebrity violence
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