PATRICK WHITE, the Australian novelist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973, has never been especially popular, commercial or comfortable to read, even for his fans. So I was surprised but pleased to see that he is one of six finalists in the ‘lost’ Man Book Prize with The Vivisector (1970).
My introduction to him was very… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

THE MOST IMPRESSIVE and memorable of the author presentations I have been to so far at the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival (running this week) was by Alex Perry about his book Falling off the Edge: Globalization, World Peace and other Lies (Pan 2010).
Perry is Africa Bureau Chief for Time magazine, which seems to mean that he files … CLICK FOR FULL BLOG

Imtiaz Dharker’s disembodied voice floated into my consciousness during a moment of insomnia when I was listening to the World Service. It kept me awake for an hour. Dharker is a poet who recites her poetry from memory, like ordinary living speech and not in the dirge-like… CLICK FOR FULL BLOG