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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The Nonfiction November topic this week is an opportunity to take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd. The host, Katie at Doing
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Obscene and vile: why Zola’s novels ruined a publisher
Zola’s obscene and vile novels brought one publishing company to its knees
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Life by Keith Richards #book review
I lead a gentleman’s life. Listen to Mozart, read many, many books. I’m a voracious reader. History, in particular the
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