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Finding a copy of your free Evening Standard

12.10.09
Your London Evening Standard is now available through more than 500 retailers in an effort to meet overwhelming demand since it became a free newspaper... more

Yes, give me bad writers with bad lives

17.08.09
A literary biography without a sex-Nazi, child-slavery, and/or hamster-rape angle is now dead in the water... more

Dates, mates and colour at Rosie's Deli Cafe

04.06.09
The combination of nice food with the miraculous place that is Brixton Market makes you want to return to Rosie's Deli Cafe.... more

Our migrants’ great gift to this city - literature

02.06.09
Arguments over the consequences of immigration are furious and frequent. But it has another, less-noticed, result: it fertilises literature ... more

Kelman and Naipaul are among nominees for Man Booker prize

18.03.09
James Kelman and VS Naipaul are in the running for this year's £60,000 Man Booker International Prize, it was announced... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

The age-old game of literary prizes

07.01.09
This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual... more

JK’s fairy tales are a load of old Hogwarts

05.12.08
Pages and pages on the special properties of wands made from elderwood? That's not literature, it's fiddling... more

Some inside jobs in Writers' Rooms

04.12.08
Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. ... more

I’ll talk up your book if you praise mine

03.12.08
'Tis the season of festive cheer and literary logrolling... more

Why can't I read books by a Nobel Frenchman?

10.10.08
J M G Le Clézio, who has just won this year's Nobel Prize for Literature, has many connections to Britain. The son of a British doctor, he grew up speaking both French and English. As a child, he regularly holidayed in Britain and went on to study English at Bristol University.... more

Literary Life

08.10.08
Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Comment: The safe choice, but a thoroughly satisfying read

16.07.08
This year's shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize was almost embarrassingly good... more

Murder mystery that led to Holmes and Morse is £30,000 winner

16.07.08
An account of a gruesome Victorian murder which sparked our obsession with detective novels has won the world's most lucrative non-fiction book prize... more

Biographers please note - it's a sin to omit adultery

03.06.08
Go on, admit it. Even if like me you have little interest in the shenanigans of the royal family, you cannot fail to have had your curiosity piqued by the revelations about the Earl of Snowdon's love life... more

Why my Asian mother fancies Elvis

16.04.08
I recently met Sathnam Sanghera, a Cambridge graduate and Times journalist. He'd written of his determination to marry a white woman and I asked why. He sheepishly admitted that a white partner was proof he'd "made it"... more

I'll forgive the messy morals if I can have great writing

08.04.08
So now we know. The new authorised biography of VS Naipaul reveals the Nobel laureate is a monster of meanness and paranoia who enjoyed whoremongering, beating up his mistress and verbally abusing his wife... more

I'll buy no more books by this monster

03.04.08
Patrick French has just published an unflinchingly honest biography of Nobel prize-winning writer VS Naipaul, who comes across as unpleasant and stuffed with conceit... more

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