Books & Poetry

Writer, critic, novelist and TV presenter Melvyn Bragg is best known for the ‘South Bank Show’; he’s one of Time Out’s 40th birthday London heroes

The acclaimed writer whose literary career took flight with the London-set voyage of discovery, ‘Metroland’, Julian Barnes is one of Time Out London’s 40th birthday heroes

London's very own Nobel Prize for Literature laureate whose career has spanned over half a century, Doris Lessing is one of our 40th birthday heroes

Poet, critic, pundit, broadcaster, comedian, journalist and ex-pat Australian all-rounder, Clive James is one of Time Out London’s 40th birthday heroes

Comic genius David Sedaris is in town to read from his latest book of essays, ‘When You are Engulfed in Flames’, and other pieces. Time Out spoke to him about living in London, sex and Connecticut-based epileptics

Many thought the game was up for James Frey after he was revealed to have fabricated sections of his memoir ‘A Million Little Pieces’. But even a lambasting from Oprah hasn’t prevented his first novel from becoming a hit. Time Out meets him

Chuck Palahniuk tells Time Out why we all love the idea of apocalypse

Will Self isn’t your average straight white male writer. Time Out meets a man proud to be in touch with his homosexual side