David Cornwall aka John Le Carre

Le Carre donates literary archive to the Bodleian

News Thu 24 Feb 2011, AT 08:37

'Smiley' novelist gives his archive to the university where he studied languages before becoming an agent

Philip Pullman

Pullman gets hate mail for ‘Scoundrel Christ’

News Mon 22 Mar 2010, AT 06:39

Philip Pullman condemned to hell for suggesting St Paul invented the idea that Jesus was the Son of God

Ian McEwan author

McEwan skewers artists’ response to climate change

News Mon 8 Mar 2010, AT 07:51

Ian McEwan’s new ‘climate change book’ Solar mocks cultural expedition to the Arctic Circle

Martin Amis

Martin Amis ‘pulls out of lit fest after bad review’

News Mon 1 Feb 2010, AT 09:01

Sunday Times gives another of its star speakers at Oxford a lousy review

Billie Piper as Belle de Jour

How Belle de Jour’s secret friend helped protect her

News Thu 19 Nov 2009, AT 07:35

Blogger Darren guessed her identity six years ago and ‘Googlewhacked’ the press

Helena Bonham Carter as Enid Blyton

No room at the Beeb for monstrous Enid Blyton

News Mon 16 Nov 2009, AT 06:43

How BBC executives snubbed the ‘second-rate’ children’s writer for nearly 30 years

Billie Piper as Belle de Jour

Belle de Jour unmasked: she’s a research scientist

News Mon 16 Nov 2009, AT 06:32

The woman who blogged about her work as a call girl turns out to be Dr Brooke Magnanti

Marie Ndiaye; prix Goncourt

Marie Ndiaye wins the Prix Goncourt

News Tue 3 Nov 2009, AT 11:43

Author becomes the first black woman to win French literature’s greatest award

Martin Amis; Katie Price; Jordan

Martin Amis and Katie Price: a strange infatuation

News Thu 29 Oct 2009, AT 10:15

Novelist seems appalled and intrigued by glamour model Jordan in equal measure

JM Coetzee

JM Coetzee in the running for Booker hat-trick

News Tue 8 Sep 2009, AT 19:09

South African author is on the shortlist again along with AS Byatt, but the bookies have made Hilary Mantel favourite

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