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  A. S. Byatt lives and writes in her handsome west London house and, in the summer months, in her house in the south of France. Both are filled with art, predominantly by her contemporaries, libraries of extravagant, Borgesian range and curiosa of many kinds, hinting at her unusual fecundity...

When I emailed Chris Carduff last month about some writing projects, I didn’t know that his response would never be possible. Chris had died the same day, taken by a

The Nobel laureate’s new collection of stories is concerned with death, desire and old age, glinting with flashes of humour and grand, existential strangeness

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Carsten Niebuhr was the sole survivor of the "Royal Danish Arabia Expedition." The German mathematician and cartographer is today regarded as the first scientific research explorer of modern times. By Friedhelm Hartwig

Heres a brash overgeneralization: American writers tend to charge at life freestyle,...

Roads to Santiago: Detours in the Lands and History of Spain by Nooteboom, Cees at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  186046162X - ISBN 13:  9781860461620 - The Harvill Press - 1997 - Hardcover

People think the Dutch are a sunny and welcoming people, famed for their diplomacy and deal-making. The truth is rather different.

"The New Rijksmuseum" proves that films can describe nuances of character and situation as finely as the finest novel or creative non-fiction. Across four hours, we study the body language, discreet gestures and expressions of an army of museum curators, architects, art restorers, carpenters, construction workers, contractors and government beaureaucrats as they spend ten years struggling to renovate Amsterdams great art museum. The camera singles out striking details: The tapping feet of museu...