As her book about poet Sir Thomas Wyatt is published, Nicola Shulman talks to David Sexton about modelling, marriage and being part of a media mafia... more
Typical, isn’t it? You come back from your summer break to find the temp has adjusted your chair, changed your screensaver to a yellow bird and left a passive-aggressive note on your desk... more
At 26, Simon Rich has already sold three film scripts to Hollywood, is a writer for Saturday Night Live and has just published his first novel. It’s an old-fashioned comic tale, he tells Tom Teodorczuk
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Rebuilding Britain's banks: When Britain's greatest comic writer PG Wodehouse penned Psmith In The City in 1908 there was more than a touch of the autobiographical about it
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JB Priestley’s 1949 collection of short essays about things that delighted him has been updated by the members of the London Library. From girl bands to Bexhill-on-Sea, here six of them reveal their secret delights...... more
I've never been sure what literary festivals are for. The separation of books from their authors has always seemed to me highly desirable, rather than an unfortunate anomaly to be rectified.... more
Diamond-encrusted cigarette holders. Tailor-made underpants. But all legendary comic and dandy Terry-Thomas was really interested in were the 'jolly eager girls'.
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Some authors could give Olympic athletes a good run for their money. The Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has notched up an impressive 32 marathons since he took up the sport in 1982... more
Playing a mean, moody medic turned Hugh Laurie into a sex symbol. But it has also forced him to face up to his own tortured personality - and the strains it's placed on his marriage.... more
Matthew Norman pays homage to quitter Sandy Lyle, says The Open is devalued by the absence of Tiger and compares boxing legend Roy Jones Jnr to a block of cheese... more
BBC DJ Andy Kershaw left jail on Friday after serving six weeks for breaching a restraining order relating to his ex-partner Juliette Banner, the mother of his two children. Here his sister and fellow DJ Liz Kershaw introduces his upbeat and frank prison diaries
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A story brimming with mad ideas and ridiculous coincidences, Improbable Frequency melds song and dance seamlessly with absurdist theatre in a production that fizzes with energy.... more
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