In Brief: Tom Wolfe’s £4m advance

Veteran satirist and author of The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe has left the publisher with whom he has enjoyed a 40-year relationship for a £4m advance from Little, Brown for his latest novel Back to Blood… Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe is among celebrities to have donated their spectacles to an art exhibition in Liverpool commemorating the Holocaust by echoing photographs of piles of glasses taken from concentration camp victims; Yoko Ono, Stephen Fry, Jerry Springer and Ronnie Corbett have also donated specs… Sixty-five-year old former Bond girl Britt Eckland has revealed she wants to do stand-up comedy after her success in the stage version of Grumpy Old Women… Pope Benedict has dismantled the 75-year-old Vatican observatory to make space for rooms in which he will receive diplomats…  ·