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Beautiful but damned: the house that inspired Gatsby

Guy Adams: A mansion on Long Island that was frequented by Fitzgerald is to be redeveloped.

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Ssshhh! The noisy US revolution coming to British libraries

Monday, 7 March 2011

Public libraries could be set for a radical overhaul that could see books offered alongside coffee, murder mystery nights, poetry evenings and open mic sessions, should the plans of a private US company be given the green light.

Motion pens Larkin paean for cancer charity appeal

Monday, 7 March 2011

The former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion has written a poem in memory of Philip Larkin, the celebrated English poet who died in 1985.

1,000,000 Britons prepare to enjoy a rattling good read

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Kate Youde: Twenty thousand people handed out a record number of tomes across the country for the first World Book Night.

Seventy years on, Woolf reveals a new character

Sunday, 6 March 2011

Matthew Bell: There was more to the Bloomsbury novelist than her bohemian lifestyle, it has emerged.

Rescued from the bonfire, the lost work of C S Lewis

Friday, 4 March 2011

Rob Sharp: The author CS Lewis loved reading his translation of Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid to fellow Oxford-based writers, including JRR Tolkien, at the Inklings, the famous informal literary discussion group they both frequented.

The £400 cookbook that blends technology with food

Sunday, 27 February 2011

Billionaire former Microsoft engineer turns his mind to culinary science

Le Carré gifts entire archive to Bodleian

Thursday, 24 February 2011

Rob Sharp: George Smiley, John le Carr�'s fictional Cold War spymaster, is returning to his spiritual home.

Former aide's book claims Palin breached election laws

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

David Usborne: Former governor of Alaska told top aide she hated 'this damn job' before resigning from office barely halfway through her elected term, according to leaked draft of an unauthorised biography.

Delight as 'lost' Enid Blyton book is discovered

Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Jonathan Brown: Crikey! Lovers of Enid Blyton can look forward to lashings of words from the pen of their favourite writer after the discovery of a previously unknown book, written at the height of her imaginative powers.

Writers' cemetery protected

Tuesday, 22 February 2011

The final resting place of some of the greatest names in English literature has been given Grade I status. Daniel Defoe, who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress, are among those buried at Bunhill Fields Cemetery in central London.

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