Books & Poetry

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

To celebrate the launch of his new novel, ‘Crime’, Irvine Welsh is curating a night at cool literary salon Book Slam. Time Out finds out more

Gay words and music club Polari joins forces with the House of Homosexual Culture for a series of events exploring and celebrating queer literature

London Literature Festival programmer Martin Colthorpe reveals the diverse delights in this year's event, which begins at Southbank Centre next month

This week sees the DVD release of ’The Cement Garden‘, the unsettling 1993 film of Ian McEwan‘s novel. Dave Calhoun looks back at the author‘s works that have been turned into movies, while Books editor John O‘Connell considers those still awaiting the cinematic treatment

Melvyn Bragg chats amiably with Sarah Waters about her sexuality, happy childhood in rural Pembrokeshire and fascination with Victorian pornography

Urban Scrawl – Theatre 503 and Theatrevoice.com – are looking for budding playwrights to join in a trailblazing new writing experiment. The mission: to create podcast mini-dramas inspired by every single stop on the Piccadilly Line