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William Boyd: a tale of two cities

10.09.09
Are you sitting comfortably? Well, don’t take it for granted. Even London’s cosiest middle classes can be reduced to low life at a stroke, according to William Boyd in his latest novel. Here he expands on this and other themes ... more

Where is the novelist to do our city justice?

31.07.09
Dickens’s novels seemed to encapsulate the entire city and London became the central character of his work... more

There's Vikings, Darwin and Six Parties at the National

06.07.09
The National Theatre’s New Connections season fizzes with promise.... more

Bleached-out Michael Jackson is no role model for me

03.07.09
It is exactly a week since the ridiculous mass hysteria first erupted over the death of MJ (as he is now being called). For seven days the nation has been deluged with little else but the ceaseless outpourings of grief... more

Short stories will celebrate the capital's Royal Park life

19.06.09
There is romance in Hyde Park and Restoration drama in St James's as eight writers bring London's Royal Parks to life... more

The Thames delivers up a ghoulish cargo

22.05.09
I walk beside the Thames almost every day - through Battersea Park - keeping an eye open for any corpses floating past... more

Sound check: My word! It's a rap

22.05.09
Rising MC Speech Debelle is the latest performer to bring music to Bookslam, the literary nightclub that's breaking new ground.... more

Bloomsbury's Wisden innings off to a flyer

15.05.09
Wisden is proving a winner for Bloomsbury Publishing... more

When fraud becomes just another fun word game

29.07.08
We all love a good literary hoax. With literary (as opposed to commercial) fraud, there seems less at stake. No lives are lost, no crime is committed. Better still, it is usually a con aimed at the pretentious arts establishment... more

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22.02.08
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Freudian gag wears thin

21.09.06
In Rabbit Fever, women the world over are hooked on the Rampant Rabbit sex toy and as a full-length mockumentary film it isn't long before the vaguely Freudian gag wears pretty thin.... more

Rabbit causes a buzz in film world

18.09.06
A new "mockumentary" Rabbit Fever, featuring the world's most popular sex toy, is set to become the unlikeliest British film smash of the year.... more

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