http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/related-31892-vs-naipaul/topic-rss.do V.S. Naipaul RSS feed http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23767689-how-londons-business-is-done-as-people-party.do If London is a centre of influence, a melting pot of creative partnerships, deals, competition and unlikely alliances then last night the Evening Standard's party for London's top 1,000 influentials was a microcosm of that in action 2009-11-11T09:16:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23755375-evening-standard-goes-free.do 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 2009-10-12T07:47:53Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23732974-yes-give-me-bad-writers-with-bad-lives.do A literary biography without a sex-Nazi, child-slavery, and/or hamster-rape angle is now dead in the water 2009-08-17T07:13:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/restaurants/review-23703685-dates-mates-and-colour-at-rosies-deli-cafe.do The combination of nice food with the miraculous place that is Brixton Market makes you want to return to Rosie's Deli Cafe. 2009-06-03T23:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23702402-our-migrants-great-gift-to-this-city---literature.do Arguments over the consequences of immigration are furious and frequent. But it has another, less-noticed, result: it fertilises literature 2009-06-02T07:32:54Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23663932-kelman-and-naipaul-are-among-nominees-for-man-booker-prize.do James Kelman and VS Naipaul are in the running for this year's £60,000 Man Booker International Prize, it was announced 2009-03-18T15:25:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23613097-the-age-old-game-of-literary-prizes.do This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual 2009-01-07T08:40:11Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23613138-the-age-old-game-of-literary-prizes.do This year’s Costa Book Awards look even more of a lottery than usual 2009-01-07T08:40:11Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23597494-jks-fairy-tales-are-a-load-of-old-hogwarts.do Pages and pages on the special properties of wands made from elderwood? That's not literature, it's fiddling 2008-12-05T12:25:49Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/arts/review-23597085-some-inside-jobs-in-writers-rooms.do Eamonn McCabe invites us into private worlds in Writers' Rooms where the secrets of creativity, memories of agonies and inspirations are stored. 2008-12-04T00:00:00Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596295-ill-talk-up-your-book-if-you-praise-mine.do 'Tis the season of festive cheer and literary logrolling 2008-12-03T11:10:19Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23571121-why-cant-i-read-books-by-a-nobel-frenchman.do 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. 2008-10-10T08:42:20Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23562950-literary-life.do <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://i.thisislondon.co.uk/i/js/image-resizer.js"></script> 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. 2008-10-02T11:56:41Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23516771-comment-the-safe-choice-but-a-thoroughly-satisfying-read.do This year's shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize was almost embarrassingly good 2008-07-16T07:48:55Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23516773-murder-mystery-that-led-to-holmes-and-morse-is-30000-winner.do 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 2008-07-16T07:50:48Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23489728-biographers-please-note---its-a-sin-to-omit-adultery.do 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 2008-06-03T09:06:56Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23478710-why-my-asian-mother-fancies-elvis.do 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" 2008-04-16T08:54:33Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23475651-ill-forgive-the-messy-morals-if-i-can-have-great-writing.do 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 2008-04-08T08:27:17Z http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23472787-ill-buy-no-more-books-by-this-monster.do 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 2008-04-03T08:31:18Z