David Cameron’s ‘chillaxing’ hobbies revealed in new biography
Prime minister spends weekends playing with a tennis machine called 'the Clegger' and singing karaoke, according to bookIf "chillaxing" was an Olympic sport then David Cameron, would win a gold medal, according to a new biography of the prime minister....
Alfie Gives a Hand by Shirley Hughes – review
'This edition also comes with a read along CD so Bryn is able to enjoy the story on his own too'"I love it," Bryn announced as soon as we finished Alfie Gives a Hand. Another classic Alfie story, here he goes to a birthday party and overcomes his shyne...
Putting our lives on the page
Alison Bechdel turned her relationship with her father into a bestselling memoir. Now it's her mother's turnThe first time Alison Bechdel wrote about her family was at college. She was doing "very, very badly" in an English class, and decided to write ...
Around the world in Eighty days by Jules Verne – review
'An unforgettable classic which is recommended for all the ages'Phileas Fogg lives at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens. He's a rich bachelor, around 40 years of age, but nobody knows his source of his ₤40,000 fortune. This amount was significan...
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Reader review: Kerouac caught the imagination of a generation, but On the Road is also impressively written, says RabBurnout
Conference call
A St Andrews conference on the Harry Potter series as literary texts has not met with universal approval in the academic worldAcademics gathered in Scotland on Friday to discuss hot literary topics including the racial politics of goblins, the canonisa...
My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz Calder
'His death is very hard to believe. He loved living so much' I discovered Carlos Fuentes during my adolescence, through his Death of Artemio Cruz, which we studied in our Spanish Literature classes in Buenos Aires. Unlike many of the ponderous novels f...
My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz Calder
'His death is very hard to believe. He loved living so much' I discovered Carlos Fuentes during my adolescence, through his Death of Artemio Cruz, which we studied in our Spanish Literature classes in Buenos Aires. Unlike many of the ponderous novels f...
My hero: Carlos Fuentes by Alberto Manguel and Liz Calder
'His death is very hard to believe. He loved living so much' I discovered Carlos Fuentes during my adolescence, through his Death of Artemio Cruz, which we studied in our Spanish Literature classes in Buenos Aires. Unlike many of the ponderous novels f...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
Word and image: my top 10 books on film
From Christopher Isherwood's 'limbo of mirror-images' to 'the projected film's best-kept secret'We don't have to think about what we like, but thinking can be part of our pleasure, rather than opposed to it. When I was asked to write Film: A Very Short...
