Michael Bywater

What money can't buy: all the best bits of Greece for starters

Fri 18 May, AT 07:55 Michael Bywater

A book that explains the scariest part of 'free market' is the word 'free' is a must read

Michael Bywater

Fifty Shades of Grey is erotic fiction for trainspotters

Fri 11 May, AT 14:44 Michael Bywater

E.L. James may have 'raised eyebrows' around the world but her book is all about ticking the boxes of sexual perversions

Spanking

Erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey sparks UK bondage fad

One-Minute Read Fri 11 May, AT 13:21

Sex toy sales up and bondage classes popular thanks to mummy porn sensation

Michael Bywater

London under siege, France in revolution - plus ca change

Fri 4 May, AT 15:33 Michael Bywater

London today is a lot like London in the eighteenth century - but with surface-to-air missiles

Barnes & Noble

Microsoft and Barnes & Noble team up to boost Nook e-reader

First Reaction Tue 1 May, AT 09:01

Huge $605 million investment will help Nook compete against Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad

Simon Cowell

Simon Cowell book: three out of four judges give it a big No

Media Watch Fri 27 Apr, AT 11:06

Cowell is deemed not interesting enough and not even nasty enough for a Tom Bower biography

Michael Bywater

Why the righteous man is nearly always wrong

Thu 26 Apr, AT 16:09 Michael Bywater

If God had read 'The Righteous Mind' he might have spared Sodom and saved us a lot of trouble

Christopher Hitchens

Orwell shock: no posthumous prize for Christopher Hitchens

First Post Wed 25 Apr, AT 10:28

Friends had expected his last book, Arguably, to be a shoo-in for the political writing award

Michael Bywater

If only British voters could be as ruthless as the Pulitzer jury

Thu 19 Apr, AT 21:27 Michael Bywater

No Pulitzer fiction contender was good enough to win - and neither are our politicians. Let anarchy rule!

Pulitzer shock: US novelists snubbed by prize jury

First Reaction Tue 17 Apr, AT 15:01

Not since 1977 have Pulitzer judges dropped fiction prize because nothing was good enough

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