reading

Diary

15 March 2014 9:00 am

The week leading up to publication is a strange time for any author. You subject yourself to doing everything from…

A book for all ages

15 March 2014 9:00 am

The genesis of The Road to Middlemarch was a fine article in the New Yorker about  Rebecca Mead’s unsuccessful search…

Six of the best

19 October 2013 9:00 am

When one notices the first symptoms of senile dementia (forgetting names, trying to remember the purpose of moving from one…

Are you sitting comfortably…

24 August 2013 9:00 am

Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books