The Bibliophilic Blogger

No sooner do I deliver my twopennyworth on travel writing than Colin Thubron comes along and says it all so much better than I can do in Th...

Is travel-writing dead?  That's the sort of question that is only marginally less sleep-inducing than: "Is the novel dead?"  O...

Once upon a time certain literary critics argued that biography was superfluous at best, pernicious at worst, because it encouraged us to co...

The news that Martin Amis is to leave Britain again, in disgust at his native land, has been greeted with the usual round of derision from j...

I recently reported a comment from Bruce Chatwin's letters about writers needing to write only what there is a compelling urgency to wri...

My comment in the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section appeared yesterday:- The remarkable announcement this week by the Bod...

The sense you get with a lot of currently hyped British fiction that the writers are straining too hard, that the writing has been overcooke...