Fiction

Losing the Plot

A book telling the story of a book that cannot be written – which is written

World Literature

Angry Old Man

Friends of Evelyn Waugh often wondered how he could reconcile his beastly behaviour with his deep faith. Waugh was not exactly apologetic: ‘You have no…

World Literature

A Serious Business

Edward St Aubyn has undoubted comic gifts, as he has proven in his previous work, but his satire on the Booker Prize judging process tacks…