Catharine Arnold enjoys a vivid account of the Soho strip-club magnate who democratised pornFor years the tawdry neon sign for the Raymond Revuebar was a London landmark. Its gyrating showgirl drew men to the Walker's Court club for four decades with t...
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Tor Books is proud to present the book trailer for Towers of Midnight, the penultimate thirteenth novel in The Wheel of Time series, written by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson.Produced by the joint creativ...
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The Gathering Storm, volume twelve in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time, will be available in ebook form on Spetember 28th. In celebration of Jordan’s work, we have commissioned fourteen artists to interpret one of the Wheel of Time book...
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After last week’s announcement of the winners of New Zealand’s Sir Julius Vogel awards, this week come Australia’s fan awards, the Ditmar Awards.The Ditmars are awarded in a wide array of categories. Anybody can nominate, and all mem...
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The first chapter from Kathryn Schulz's 'Adventures in the Margin of Error', longlisted for the Guardian first book award 2010
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David Morrell on publishing. Very interesting reading.
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Again and again, while reading submissions for the Guardian first book award, I have noticed editing letting the writing downLast week I tweeted with frustration about the standards of editing I had encountered while longlisting the Guardian First Book...
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'I read Tony Blair A Journey all night and into the early hours. At 5.10am I had a revelation. Mr Blair surrounded himself with Alpha Males'Wednesday 1st SeptemberDear Diary,Woken early by an employee of Parcel Force. He was a Chinese bloke and as...
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by Mary BeardI wouldn't have wanted to spend much time with her. She was far too histrionic, too satisfied with her own cleverness and even more self-obsessed than the average early 20th-century don. But Jane Ellen Harrison changed the way we think abo...
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by Seamus HeaneyAir from another life and time and place,Pale blue heavenly air is supportingA white wing beating high against the breeze,And yes, it is a kite! As when one afternoonAll of us there trooped outAmong the briar hedges and stripped thorn,I...
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We all want to be happy, we want our children to be happy, and there are countless books advising us how to achieve happiness. But is this really what we should be aiming for?"A fly bothers me, I kill it: you kill what bothers you. If I had not ki...
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A crumbling art deco apartment block designed to resemble the Queen Mary is one of the glories of England's south coast. Iain Sinclair is seduced by its faded charmsJust before 7am on the morning of 20 July 2010, a number of passengers disembark from a...
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He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendoThis summer, 128 years ...
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Solomon EagleDaniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year imagined the Great Plague of 1665 so vividly that the first readers thought it a genuine record. One of the religious "enthusiasts" inspired by the calamity is "the famous Solomon Eagle", who "we...
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This biography of Sean Connery by an adoring fan just misses the mark, says Simon CallowRegardless of what you may think of his acting, Sean Connery has been a highly prominent figure in the celluloid landscape of the past 40 years in two particular ma...
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The great novelist seems to have had an unhappy time, Giles Foden discoversThe throwing of mud at an older author by a younger one is never pretty, and Paul Theroux was naughty to have done it. But with the passing of time, some of the judgments cast a...
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