Issue 02
Summer 2006
Tucked away in Mayfair, G Heywood Hill is one of London’s finest bookshops, selling a wide selection of antiquarian, second-hand and new stock to cater for the avid reader’s every need.
Features
The renowned Scottish novelist attempts to persuade Anna Goodall of the charms of his latest work
Readers want authenticity, they want insight – they want truth. Helen Lewis asks: how far are authors prepared to go to give them what they want?
Life Begins at Twenty (something)
Felicity Cloake talks to Iain Hollingshead about his debut novel and the tricky business of sex scenes
Ana Silvera considers the relationship between ‘madness’ and ‘art’ through the writing of Samuel Beckett
Matthias Mueller talks to publishing legend Peter Mayer
By Leonard Cohen
Villard Books 1993
Back Pages
Charles Maxwell-House in the Clink!
Our plucky correspondent finds himself on the wrong side of the Law!