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From the pearls of Zadie to the D cups of Jordan

2009-11-20T09:46:10Z

As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties?

Iraq backdrop to Alastair Campbell's choice

2009-10-14T08:59:14Z

Royal Academy to run climate change exhibition

2009-07-01T11:41:03Z

The Royal Academy is to present Britain's first art exhibition dedicated to climate change

Political humour as subtle as a man thrown down a stairwell

2009-05-13T07:46:02Z

Just so that we're straight on this from the beginning, you should know that I like Barack Obama. Got that book he wrote about his dad and dreams and everything

Shocking secrets in Tusk, Tusk

2009-04-01T23:00:00Z

After her precocious debut at 19, with the award-winning That Face, Polly Stenham's second play, Tusk Tusk, confirms a startling, theatrical promise.

I�ll talk up your book if you praise mine

2008-12-03T11:10:19Z

'Tis the season of festive cheer and literary logrolling

The thing about Ross is - he's just very funny

2008-10-31T09:55:33Z

I blame the credit crunch. Only terminal weariness with hearing about our ever-worse economic prospects can explain why Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross dominated the news all week.

For You is dark opera worth waiting for

2008-10-29T00:00:00Z

Ian McEwan's mildly salacious scenario, his debut as an opera librettist in For You, serves as a spicy vehicle for Michael Berkeley's latest opera.

And the winners are not...

2008-10-15T07:55:46Z

The Man Booker judges have determined that Aravind Adiga's debut novel about the seamier side of Indian life�is the best fiction of the year. How do they do that?

Dummy film-maker is promising talent

2008-10-09T23:00:00Z

Getting its London premiere tonight at Raindance, Matthew Thompson's debut feature, Dummy, has a lot more going for it than its unfortunate title.

Literary Life

2008-10-02T11:56:41Z

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.

Off the record

2008-09-19T14:38:04Z

From Coldplay to KT Tunstall � charities are finding that enlisting musicians is the ideal way to get their message to a jaded public.

Keira Knightley: 'Missing university makes me feel stupid'

2008-08-02T11:38:23Z

Keira Knightley has admitted missing out on university because of her film career has left her with a chip on her shoulder.The 23-year-old hopes to prove herself to be brainy by reading more.

Ian McEwan's long-lost brother tells the story of how he was given away at birth

2008-06-27T19:57:38Z

It could be an Ian McEwan novel: an only child given away at birth tracks down his secret family and discovers he has a famous brother. The twist? It’s true ...and the brother IS Ian McEwan. Here,they tell their extraordinary story

ICA hosts The Booker at the Movies screenings

2008-06-05T23:00:00Z

The Booker at the Movies will screen four of the 39 films so far adapted from novels that won or were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

JK and the bust that nearly got away

2008-04-10T00:13:52Z

Author JK Rowling clearly intended to make a splash at the prestigious British Book Awards. But she suffered an embarrassing cleavage malfunction in her waist-cinching purple satin dress, and her blushes were spared only with the help of her male assistant

Top Opera House tickets hit �210 to pay for lower prices in the gods

2008-03-19T10:08:24Z

Top prices at the Royal Opera House are rising to £210 for the hottest productions featuring stars such as Bryn Terfel

Awards success for Atonement and Bourne

2008-03-10T09:37:02Z

Atonement led the way at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards, scooping three prizes while The Bourne Ultimatum was named Best Film.

Granta One Hundred

2008-02-22T12:04:01Z

Jordan has shown the book trade how it's done

2008-02-19T08:33:40Z

Just before the Man Booker Prize was awarded last year, an enterprising journalist revealed that the entire shortlist of six had sold fewer copies than Crystal, the second novel issued under the name of Katie Price, the inflatable better known as Jordan. Her book had shifted 159,407 units in just three months, comfortably seeing off the Booker total of 120,770 (nearly all Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, anyway). Literary fiction is a goner, pundits glumly concluded

Things are getting critical

2008-02-15T10:41:54Z

DVDs of the week

2008-02-05T00:00:00Z

World War II romance in Atonement, Jamie Bell as a creepy misfit in Hallam Foe and Richard Gere stars in The Hoax.

A great night for Britain at Globes ceremony

2008-01-14T09:15:24Z

War-time drama Atonement led a night of British triumphs at the Golden Globes - without a ceremony to celebrate.

Keira's in a class of her own

2007-09-05T23:00:00Z

A postmodern romance, Atonement works best as a riposte to all those films that put high-society women on a pedestal and is one of the finest British films of the year.

Knightley wows fans at Atonement premiere

2007-09-05T07:42:30Z

Keira Knightley delighted fans at the London premiere of her new film Atonement in Leicester Square.

The Wright Stuff

2007-08-30T11:15:12Z

Joe Wright, the toast of Venice with the premiere of his film Atonement, talks about how he became Britain's hottest director.

Epic yet intimate, a British triumph

2007-08-28T23:00:00Z

Ian McEwan's 'unfilmable' best-selling novel Atonement - starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy - is already being talked of as a triumph.

Coming soon for autumn

2007-08-24T11:13:07Z

After the silliness of the summer blockbusters, autumn brings a crop of films for grown-ups. See our preview here.

And next year's winners will be ...

2007-02-15T16:15:39Z

The Brits threaten to clean up at the Oscars - but can our film industry sustain the good form? Charlotte O'Sullivan looks ahead to the movies that could take next year's prizes.

Hollywood's new royalty

2007-01-16T11:56:12Z

After the Golden Globe successes and record growth in the British film industry, we name our top 50 major players.