Reverend Dr James Walters on The Gospel of Us
Port Talbot's Passion play is in no way a literal version of the Bible, but it asks powerful questions about Christianity and our communities now, finds the LSE's chaplainIt would be easy for Christians to get all irate about this film of the Passion p...
A headhunter’s view on Headhunters
Obviously, I've never contemplated stealing art, but I did see some interesting parallels with recruitment in Brown's five rules of theftI can't say my own salary and lifestyle quite match those of Roger Brown, the headhunter in this enjoyable – if a...
Death of a salesman: no more door-to-door Britannica
The legendary encyclopedia collection is to be printed no more. So it's farewell to the salesmen tooI remember them well: those heavy black books with their glossy gold lettering, all 32 of them, occupying their own special bookcase in the corner of my...
10 books to help boost young boys’ reading
Young boys are often 'reluctant readers', so to help meet the government's aim to get more children reading, here is a Top 10 of books for boys, as chosen by expert Ellen AinsworthOn Tuesday, the government announced its plan to get more children readi...
Portrait of the artist: Caroline Quentin, actor
'I could name on one hand the things I've done that are OK. The rest are rubbish'What got you started?I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as a dancer and went into pantomimes...
Edmund de Waal: a passion for pots
Edmund de Waal's last book was an unlikely bestseller about a family heirloom. Now he's written a history of his first love, ceramics. Laura Barnett talks to him about life behind the wheelWhen Edmund de Waal was five, he asked his dad to take him to a...
This year’s stocking-fillers
The bookshop shelves are awash with festive books this year – and they don't cost much more than a greetings cardThe nation's Scrooges had better give bookshops a wide berth for the next month: something avowedly Christmassy is happening to their she...
This year’s stocking-fillers
The bookshop shelves are awash with festive books this year – and they don't cost much more than a greetings cardThe nation's Scrooges had better give bookshops a wide berth for the next month: something avowedly Christmassy is happening to their she...
Is the UEA creative writing course still the best?
Costa book award first novel nominee Christie Watson is the latest graduate of the course to find success. What do they teach them in Norwich?Amid all the hoo-ha over one of the writers shortlisted for this year's Costa book awards being a nurse lies a...
Fiction in brief – reviews
The Thread by Victoria Hislop, The Golden Hour by William Nicholson, What the Nanny Saw by Fiona Neill, The First Wife by Emily Barr and Wrecker by Summer WoodThessaloniki, May 1923: A ship docks in the harbour packed with Greek Orthodox refugees from ...
The conversation: Why is there so much misogyny online?