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At the tender age of 35 Katie Price is to release her fifth autobiography
Wednesday 19 June 2013
Katie Price has revealed she is planning to release her fifth autobiography later this year - at the age of just 35.
'Exams, exams, exams': Children's author Sally Gardner says new national curriculum would stifle classroom creativity
Wednesday 19 June 2013
'I'd like to see a divorce in the case of politics versus state education'
Clues implicating Amanda Knox ‘were underestimated’ by judges
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Italy’s supreme court has declared that clues that implicated Amanda Knox in the killing of British student Meredith Kercher had been underestimated by the judges who quashed her conviction for the crime and freed her from prison in 2011.
It's fiction, not fact, that brings history to life
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Read for My School aims to create a sense of excitement about reading
'Real men don't do poetry': Israeli army refuses to let IDF soldier read verses on the radio
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Broadcast banned over fears it would 'ruin the image of the combat soldier'
Studying great works with a gothic flavour
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Stephen Hoare investigates Manchester Metropolitan University's new centre tackling the dark side of the arts
A Woman Of Substance author slams 50 Shades of Grey as 'terribly badly written'
Tuesday 18 June 2013
Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford has dismissed erotic romance 50 Shades Of Grey.
'It seems to be catching on' - OED adds 'tweet' to the dictionary
Monday 17 June 2013
June's quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary includes a raft of technology-inspired words
Is the Great British dandy an endangered species?
Sunday 16 June 2013
We should be proud to think that dandyism is an English thing. It began here in 1799, with the rise of George Bryan “Beau” Brummel, was heroically mimicked by Lord Byron, slavishly imitated across the Channel by the poet Baudelaire and the flâneur Alfred Comte d’Orsay, brought to a pitch of decadence by the peacock excess of Robert Conte de Montesquiou, went transatlantic and film-starry in the 1920s and 1930s (Cary Grant, Noël Coward, Fred Astaire) and went crazy in Sixties London with the tailors Tommy Nutter, Douglas Hayward and Michael Fish, before disappearing under the invasion of jeans and T-shirts that closed the 20th century.
The theatre where it’s never too late to get in on the act
Sunday 16 June 2013
The Royal Court has turned out a raft of bright young writers – now it’s launching a workshop for eightysomethings. Alice Jones sits in
The Authors XI, by The Authors Cricket Club
Sunday 16 June 2013
It could all have gone terribly wrong.
Invisible Ink: No 177 - George McCutcheon
Saturday 15 June 2013
Whimsy is hard to pull off. In the wrong hands it becomes fey and cloying. When it's done well it can create a loyal, lasting audience, as Terry Pratchett will tell you.
Review: The Quarry, by Iain Banks - A funny, stupid, pointless, infuriating, glorious, humane, smart farewell
Saturday 15 June 2013
In his final novel, Iain Banks – who died last Sunday aged 59 – writes with the brilliance, honesty and vitality that were his great gifts
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