Ben Okri

Why are publishers such bad judges when it comes to their own memoirs?

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Anthony Cheetham has been responsible for many bestsellers, but this guarded account of his career in the book trade won’t be one of them

Kazuo Ishiguro winning the Booker Prize in 1989. Photo: Alex Lentati/ Associated Newspapers/ REX/ Shutterstock

An enjoyably gossipy whisk through half a century of fierce rivalries and bruised egos

20 October 2018 9:00 am

At the beginning of Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize (BBC4), Kirsty Wark’s voiceover promised…