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Feature Items
'My Son, The Bastard' Michel Houellebecq's mother, foul-mouthed Lucie Ceccaldi, 83, grants her first British interview
The Stories Of Our Lives Carmen Callil set up Virago to publish books that celebrated women - and dreamt of shelves of green paperbacks all over the world
Living In Poverty, The Man Who 'Found' Hitler's Diaries A quarter of a century ago, a German reporter called Gerd Heidemann shocked the world when he claimed he had unearthed the diaries of Adolf Hitler
Is The Arab World Ready For A Literary Revolution? It's been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie – and sold more than 10 million copies. The haunting tale of The Kite Runner has become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Now the search is on for the next big thing to come from the East
'We've Got To Rebuild Our Credit' The arts council had a shambolic winter. Will its new boss put things right?
Virago Modern Classics Celebrates 30 Years Of Publishing Who would have thought a series of novels by obscure women writers could have caused such a sensation when it was published in the late 1970s?
The Fantastic Appeal Of Fantasy The more rational the world gets, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction
Fighting For Free Speech In Turkey It is a very difficult time to be a writer in Turkey
Amis? He Owes It All To Hitchens, Says Critic The anti-Amis brigade is suddenly attracting new recruits across the Atlantic
Balding! Portly! American! What's it like to find yourself used as a character in someone else's novel?
Pulp Fact: Books Publishing Gets Greener The latest report about the publishing industry doesn't compile sales figures, track the market for fiction or lament the future of reading. It does tell a great deal about books — not what they say, but what they're made of
'Keep Me Out Of Your Novels': Hanif Kureishi's Sister Has Had Enough Hanif Kureishi has made a habit of attacking relatives in print – and his latest book is noexception. It's time to stop, says the novelist's outraged sister, Yasmin Kureishi
Mis Lit: Is This The End For The Misery Memoir? As two 'mis lit' memoirs destined for the bestseller lists are revealed to be works of fiction, Ed West reports on the almighty backlash against a classic of the genre
Hard-Boiled And Old School Robert B Parker tells how money frees a writer and why his tough-guy hero, Spencer, will never age
Cormac Mccarthy: American Literature's Great Outsider Few writers have captured the grandeur and cruelty of the American frontier more vividly than Cormac McCarthy
Philippa Gregory Watches As Her Bestseller 'the Other Boleyn Girl' Gets The Hollywood Treatment History, novels and film - their progenitors and ownership
Tony Parsons: Does His Writing Still Have Emotional Resonance? Now a sports-car-driving, leather-jacket-clad, 54-year-old multimillionaire, Tony Parsons is back with his latest Lad Lit weepie, this time set in Shanghai. Can he still work the magic?
A New Band Of Writers The indie musicians who have turned their hands to fiction
Hic Lit! Reformed drinkers' true-life tales flood best-seller lists
Rebirth Of A Dark Genius John Updike and Philip Roth we know - but the great forgotten novelist of 20th-century America is Richard Yates
The Difference Between Ghostwriting And Fictional Writing - by Andrew Crofts Andrew Crofts is the ghostwriter behind at least ten Sunday Times chart-topping autobiographies and his novel "The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride" is due out from Blake Publishing in September. We asked him about the differences between ghostwriting and writing fiction
Ian Fleming: The Man With The Golden Pen Ian Fleming had a brilliant mind, debonair charm and a roving eye. But how much of himself did he put into James Bond?
Joy Of Sex Gets Makeover For Generation That Found Viagra 35 years after Dr Alex Comfort introduced the world to the joys of sex, his seminal manual on how to pep up love lives is itself being spiced up to appeal to a 21st-century readership
Books Lost And Found Once dismissed for their bourgeois domesticity, the 20th-century female writers championed by Persephone are now enjoying stealth success
Twelve - Betting On A Dozen Books Each Year One US imprint that got its start just last year has already had a string of hits with a philosophy of 'less is more' |
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