A N Wilson

Stars & Saints

Joseph O'Neill

Hero Who Blew It

No Laughing Matter: The Life and Times of Flann O'Brien

By Anthony Cronin

David Robey

The Chinese Box

Reflections on The Name of the Rose

By Umberto Eco (Translated by William Weaver)

Miles Donald

Loony Tunes

Moon Palace

By Paul Auster

Henry Hitchings

Grammar Schooling

First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing… and Life

By Joe Moran

Amanda Craig

The Frightful Toil

The Practice of Writing

By David Lodge

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Mum’s the Word

Writers and Their Mothers

By Dale Salwak (ed)

Paul Richardson

Man of Sixty-Two Words

The Art of the Novel

By Milan Kundera

David Pryce-Jones

Loitering with Intent

Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark

By Alan Taylor

Tim Ashley

She Made History More Interesting

Enchantress: Marthe Bibesco and Her World

By Christine Sutherland

Joanna Kavenna

The Long & Short of It

Essayism

By Brian Dillon

Margaret Forster

On Reviewing

Valerie Grove

Line Management

How to Write Like Tolstoy: A Journey into the Minds of Our Greatest Writers

By Richard Cohen

Norman Lebrecht

Publishing in Crisis?

Nigel Andrew

In Praise of Blogging

James Fleming

Reams of Our Fathers

Paper: Paging through History

By Mark Kurlansky