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Just admit it’s grim up North, and let the BBC stay at home

30.07.10
My heart goes out to Peter Salmon, who is the director of BBC North but doesn’t want to live there... more

Today’s leading writers are schoolboy show-offs, says literature professor

29.07.10
Literary academic attacks the 'cult of personality' among English novelists, lambasting some as over-rated 'show-offs'... more

Life was just riotous for us all. Then Anna Ford came along

24.02.10
The spat between former newsreader Anna Ford and novelist Martin Amis has its origins in a witty, louche set of writers... more

BBC death list shows its true royal colours

22.02.10
When fantasising about watching one's own funeral you never picture the lame reality of how it will actually be, so pity the royals for whom this has come true: Demoted to "Other Notables" by the BBC...... more

Martin Amis's lovers laid bare

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

Tributes pour in for legendary literary agent Pat Kavanagh

21.10.08
Tributes poured in for Pat Kavanagh, the legendary literary agent and wife of novelist Julian Barnes, who has died from a brain tumour... 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

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