I am so pleased that Hallie Rubenhold’s book “The Five” has won the £50,000 Baillie Gifford (formerly the Samuel Johnson) prize for non-fiction last week. Written from a Social History

First as Tragedy, second as Farce   This is Stuart Potts, who has been imprisoned today for 16 weeks for disrupting Sunday’s Remembrance Day silence by setting off fireworks. After

Ever since I was set his selected poems for English Literature A Level, I have been obsessed with TS Eliot. He of course spent many years in the City of

The City doesn’t quite have the sheer volume of literary connections that – say – Westminster does, but what it lacks in volume it makes up for in charm and