An Innocent Abroad

Once a year, the professor who convened the first literature module I ever taught organises and executes the week-long Festival of Literatur...

Now that the programmes have been finalised I can say that I'm going to be at both the West Cork Literary Festival and the Edinburgh Boo...

At the moment I'm sitting in a surprisingly large hotel room in Morristown, New Jersey, trying to find the will to sort my suitcase out,...

Besides writing a thesis, PGR students are supposed to hit a bunch of smaller benchmarks in order to be considered to have successfully fini...

This weekend, by the power of coffee, the page proofs were sent back to Random House all squiggled up with little blue pen-marks. The change...

Last night Penguin books held a little social gathering (as they seem to frequently do) for people who either write about books or select th...

So my parents have come to visit. Their only other trip to England was for the wedding a year an a half ago, so this is the first time they...