Literature

How Belle de Jour’s secret friend helped protect her

Blogger Darren guessed her identity six years ago and 'Googlewhacked' the press

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No room at the Beeb for monstrous Enid Blyton

How BBC executives snubbed the 'second-rate' children's writer for nearly 30 years

The woman who blogged about her work as a call girl turns out to be Dr Brooke Magnanti

Author becomes the first black woman to win French literature's greatest award

Novelist seems appalled and intrigued by glamour model Jordan in equal measure

South African author is on the shortlist again along with AS Byatt, but the bookies have made Hilary Mantel favourite

An evening with Sebastian Faulks at the Bloomsbury Theatre

More than just the thinking woman's romantic novelist

High-class 'Froglit' with this elegant, measured account of a British life lived in France

Martin Stannard’s biography of Scottish novelist Muriel Spark has been a long time in the making

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