Geoff Dyer is the author of The Colour of Memory, Paris Trance, The Search, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi. Described by Zadie Smith as, 'sort of like a post-modern Kingsley Amis,' his most recent book is Zona.

The month of February saw the award winning novelist in conversation...

You will find quite a few literary agents the world over not representing the sci-fi genre which is interesting, considering that science fiction is economically big business. In fact some of the highest grossing films of the last thirty to forty years were Star Wars, Blade Runner, and E.T. to...

The Olympic Games 2012 are over and judging by the outpouring of grief, it will take many of us a long time to get over that fact. This is because wall to wall coverage does something to the mental thought process. It stops us...

It's a funny old world. We're in the midst of a once in a lifetime experience by hosting an Olympic Games, our athletes are giving everything after years of training, and plenty of us are cheering them on from the stands or through the telly. Yet issues have emerged. Putting...

Whisper it quietly but even those who groan at the prospect of the Olympics will be caught up in its fervour. Pre games excitement led me to go in search and have a look at the Olympic Park, or at least try to. Boarding the train at Canonbury Station, I...

It was expected to challenge the dominance of X Factor and sold itself as being a talent show for real voices. Not a show obsessed with the appearance of its contestants or a show which laughed at its singers. No it stood upon a much grander hill. At its peak...

How many of us have purchased a book because there's been a movie adaptation, or because it's synonymous with a television programme? Are we all merely sheep waiting to be herded off to wherever the media shepherd wants us to go, or are we...