Literature

Close-Up: Nigel Williams

independent.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Novelist, playwright, screenwriter and all-round literary savant Nigel Williams has written hits such as Helen Mirren's Elizabeth I and The Wimbledon Poisoner, but one of his toughest gigs was adapting William Golding's...                    

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Dreaming Iris, By John de Falbe

independent.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Occasionally you read a novel by an author who you know instinctively loves books; someone who has read widely and lovingly, and cares so much for every word he or she commits to paper that the end result will never leave...                    

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So much for the sisterhood: Does novelist Janice Galloway hate women?

independent.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

It's been said to me, emphatically, several times over the years and by a variety of different people: "Janice Galloway doesn't like women." Yet she's a woman who has been writing books about women ever since the late...                    

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Fiona's Story, BBC 1Lost in Austen, ITV1God on Trial, BBC 2The Sculpture Diaries, Channel 4

independent.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Let us first praise Gina McKee. The word "pellucid" should never be used except to describe her complexion, which damn well radiates light and meaning. In Fiona's Story she played a woman realising slowly, very slowly,...                    

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Love. Sex. Marriage. Affairs.

guardian.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

Novelist Howard Jacobson on why the green-eyed monster is at the dark heart of male sexual passion All husbands secretly want their wives to be unfaithful to them. This is the central premise of Howard Jacobson's newest...                    

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Review: The Believers by Adam Mars-Jones

guardian.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

The bitter legacy of a whirlwind romance Clashing ideologies and repressed anger are among the subjects of Zoe Heller's fitfully brilliant history of a complex, dysfunctional New York Jewish family Zoe Heller's best-known...                    

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Review: Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

guardian.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

'What's real and make believe?' asked Roxy Music's Bryan Ferry in 'Virginia Plain' in 1972. Nearly 40 years on, Paul Auster is asking the same question. Brick lands in this reality after 13 million Americans have already...                    

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guardian.co.uk: Joseph O'Neill guardian.co.uk

Perfect delivery

guardian.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

How an unlikely tale of a New York cricket team turned Irish writer Joseph O'Neill into this year's literary sensation Author Joseph O'Neill in the apartment he shares with his wife and three young son's in Manhatten's...                    

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There's been a murder: Taggart at 25

independent.co.uk     3 hrs ago          

It is the world's longest-running police drama and synonymous with the grit and dark humour of Glasgow. Andrew Johnson rounds up 25 of the best Sunday, 7 September 2008 1) Ken Stott: Now he has been promoted to playing...                    

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Clean chapter for Welsh as he asks new writers not to swear

scotsman.com     2 hrs ago          

Published Date: 07 September 2008 HE made his name as the angriest man in Scottish writing, peppering every page with enough expletives to make a Leith docker blush. But now, as he approaches his 50th birthday, it seems...                    

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