Poison pens: When writers’ friendships turn sour
When writers’ friendships fall apart there is often acrimony and – being writers – details of their differences and bitterness
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Brilliant and beastly: the enigma of VS Naipaul
Reading Patrick French’s hefty biography of VS Naipaul brought back memories of my once playing Mahjong with incipient conjunctivitis; the
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“Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.” – humourist Franklin P Jones. Authors have to scratch a living
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‘We don’t want to hear it’ is a cry shared by over-sensitive souls and despots In these days of hurt
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Anthony Trollope was at his desk, pen in hand, from 5.30am every day. In contrast William Styron habitually slept until
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