I had copies of Josephine Hart's two novels, Damage and Sin, sitting on my bookshelves long before I read them. And when I finally picked Damage up, it was only after I'd seen Louis Malle's powerful film adaptation of the title starring Juliette Binoche and Jeremy Irons - I couldn't...

Last night (November 9th) saw the return of the once famous 'Poetry and Jazz' to Hampstead, hosted at the Jewish Cultural Centre by the poet and publisher, Jeremy Robson. Robson organised the first concert in Hampstead Town Hall in 1961, and due to overwhelming popularity, the musicians and poets involved...

Tuesday was both Man Booker Prize day (read my account of the controversy, the Cape party and even a few words from Julian Barnes himself here) and the publication date of Books One and Two of Haruki Murakami's long awaited new novel, 1Q84.

So long awaited in...

Anyone who has read any of the papers' books pages this autumn, even those keeping the vaguest of eyes on what's been published, can't help but notice the incredible amount of attention being given to Erin Morgenstern's debut novel, The Night Circus. Copies hit bookshop shelves both here and in...

You can't judge a book by its cover, however you can judge the success of an event by the length of the queue wrapping itself around the block; seemingly literary events are all the rage this season (unless of course the long line is for the chronically understaffed cloakroom, but...