The London Library

Anna Goodall gets overexcited in the stacks

‘When daisies pied, and violets blue …’

Writers With a Spring in Their Step

Tim and John in Stoke Newington

Poet Tim Wells met poet John Hegley at a beer festival and asked him a few questions

Bluebeard

A Meditation On

The Unveiled Woman

Hannah McSorley delves into the diaries of Anaïs Nin

The Comfort of Strangers

Amy Licence considers biography in the twenty-first century

Jazz Trick

Itch

Keeping the Faith

The Rock in the North

This is the Sound When a Dog Cries

The Sad Tale of Charles de Boaz

A Make-Over Mistake

Selkie

184 years old

The Faceless Functionaries of Madame X

Felucca Night

The Floral Mix

A Driving Instructor’s First Gastrointestinal Cramp

Goodbye Lucille

Segun Afolabi
Jonathan Cape, 2007

The Gathering Storm

Winston S Churchill
First published by Cassell, 1948

Our Hidden Lives

Ed. Simon Garfield
Ebury Press, 2004

Penguin Pusher

The Book Inn