Literary festivals
Wrong time and place
Dan Rhodes’s career might be regarded as an object lesson in How Not to Get Ahead in Publishing. Our man…
My Sri Lankan stroke: how a book festival turned into a horror story
This time last year, it seemed that life couldn’t get much better for me: I had a new book out…
Diary
So far my responsibilities as the 2016 chair of the Man Booker prize have been rather light. We’ve had our…
Diary
To the British embassy in Paris for a colloquium on ‘Napoleon and Wellington in War and Peace’ organised by our…
Diary
Last Tuesday I tried to sign up to a new life. My wife and I argued, slightly. ‘I don’t think…
Low life
‘Oscar!’ cried Miss Herd as I arrived. She was standing at the classroom door releasing her charges one by one…
Diary
As any author will tell you, literary festivals differ widely. If you are invited to Willy Dalrymple’s Jaipur Festival, with…
