Books & Lit
'I won't apologise for winning another prize': Hilary Mantel claims Costa Book of the Year
Hilary Mantel continues to set records after her book Bring Up the Bodies became the first work to win the Costa Book of the Year as well as the Man Booker Prize.
How Suggs' missing memoir left a publisher out of pocket
It was the small publishing house that brought Stieg Larsson
PG Wodehouse's sparkle fades on screen
Blandings - as currently seen on TV - is fun, but much duller than in prose PG Wodehouse is widely recognised as a master of English prose at its purest and most brilliant. But he also owed his success as a comic writer to an important commercial factor:
Between the Covers: 20/01/2013
Fans of the novelist, playwright and performer Stella Duffy should put in an early order for the special 200th edition of Diva magazine, which is out next weekend. Duffy is one of the magazine's 12 cover stars, and she's also written a short story for t
Austen power: 200 years of Pride and Prejudice
One of the worst commercial decisions in history was made by Thomas Cadell, a London publisher, in November 1797. Cadell was new to the job. His father was a leading light in the publishing industry, a friend of Samuel Johnson and the publisher of Gibbon'
Boyd Tonkin: Down in the mine of self-publishing, fortune favours the digital-media elite
Some of the best-known shots by Sebastiao Salgado - to my mind, the greatest photographer alive - depict an ant-like horde of freelance gold prospectors as they scrabble in the mud for that elusive nugget in the Serra Pelada mines of Brazil.Boyd Tonkin: Down in the mine of self-publishing, fortune favours the digital-media elite
Some of the best-known shots by Sebastiao Salgado - to my mind, the greatest photographer alive - depict an ant-like horde of freelance gold prospectors as they scrabble in the mud for that elusive nugget in the Serra Pelada mines of Brazil.
BBC to recreate Netherfield Ball for 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice
Party-planners of yesteryear are to be brought to life by the BBC as they recreate an entire Regency ball - to mark the 200th anniversary of Pride And Prejudice.