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
Commentary: This year’s Man Booker judges have failed to shortlist the book that has been finding the most readers and stirring up the greatest debate... more
Commentary: The Orange Prize for Fiction was set up in the belief that women were discriminated against by the existing literary prizes such as the Booker. It would not be easy to maintain that claim is true... more
First-time novelist from London is pitted against Man Booker Prize-winner Hilary Mantel and big-name Americans Barbara Kingsolver and Lorrie Moore for this year's £30,000 Orange Prize for women's fiction... more
A newspaper columnist and mentor of mine always gave short thrift to critics who asked how he would like to be on the receiving end of ill-informed opinion and knockabout abuse... more
Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is a worthy winner of the Booker Prize but qualms have already been raised by some critics over the novel’s disservice to history... more
There may be a sense of collective relief at the Tory conference today that the party's policy of a crackdown on alcohol sales announced by Chris Grayling would not be a blanket blitz... more
It is always said that women have to worry about what they wear and men do not. Yet women are making decisions based on aesthetics whereas for men they touch a fundamental sense of identity... more
Young London writer Adam Foulds joins the shortlist for this year's £50,000 Man Booker with veteran South African writer JM Coetzee bidding for a prize hat-trick... more
Whatever her other long-term achievements may turn out to be, Katie Price deserves respect for having so completely had it over the whole publishing world... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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