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Literary snobs should leave Katie Price alone

30.10.09
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... more

Kelly Brook's place in the limelight is taken by... me

11.09.09
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... more

My solution to compensation? Don't pay it at all

20.07.09
It is a disgrace, no question, that the Government proposes to chisel a few bawbees off the bottom line by reducing the compensation payment to any victim of crime found to have convictions for motoring offences... more

Martin Amis's lovers laid bare

02.06.09
Ex-girlfriend reveals all in literary kiss-and-tell ... with his blessing... more

He was my friend, my mentor – the greatest writer London had

21.04.09
JG Ballard – Jim to those who knew him – is considered by many to be the most significant author of the past 50 years. Here, one admirer pays tribute to his foremost literary inspiration and remembers an extraordinary and gentle man... more

The sign of a great writer: quit while you’re ahead

03.04.09
It's been announced that Gabriel García Márquez is "laying down his pen". At 82, he won't be writing anything else, his agent says. ... more

The extraordinary life of London's leading agent

22.10.08
As the literary world mourns the sudden death of Pat Kavanagh, a portrait is emerging of a steely operator and a woman who inspired awe and fear in equal measure... more

Avista's unimmaculate conception

08.10.08
Trying to replicate the experience of an informal shared meal in a hotel dining room in Mayfair just doesn't work for Avista.... more

More pupils going to university is a good thing, says senior Tory

15.08.08
Shadow schools minister Michael Gove has revealed the Conservatives will not depart from Labour's commitment to encourage as many school-leavers as possible to go to university... more

Misguided portrait of the artist as a young god

17.06.08
Biopics of poets have never caught on in a very big way for good reasons. The main point about poets is the poetry they write - and watching people fiddle with words on a page just isn't a hot ticket... more

Part 2: The inside story of how Lord Snowdon's marriage to Princess Margaret turned into open war

01.06.08
Cannabis in his pocket. Sex drugs in the fridge. Lovers galore - and a wife who got 'cuddly' with his best friend. Told for the first time, biographer Anne de Courcy reveals the inside story behind Princess Margaret's marriage.... more

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