Here’s some cosy TV to make confinement more bearable

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

Not all literary awards find it easy to fully forget their old corporate partners

Former judge Sebastian Faulks reportedly criticised Man Group as ‘the enemy’

In a new introduction to All Quiet, historian Norman Stone argues the brutality of Erich Maria Remarque’s novel changed perceptions about the war

The story of one of the largest first World War battles on the Western Front is being seen in a wider context

We could all benefit from women discussing how we should be governed

War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities

‘I am at my happiest when I have completed a first draft of a novel and am about to begin a second’

Sebastian Faulks, Hanif Kureishi and Helen Fielding are rivals for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize

Adapting Sebastian Faulks’s novel for the stage proved a challenge but it is well-timed for the centenary of the first World War

My books are born from my obsession with Roman history. I’ve followed Spartacus’ trail across Italy. I’ve stood at Cannae and imagined Hannibal’s army meeting the massed legions of Rome

Britain’s ‘Literary Review’ draws attention to ‘crude, badly written’ passages