Jiang Zemin books a place in history
With critics under the cosh, the former Chinese president's Selected Works look set to top the country's best-seller list.
Walesa calls on ‘shamed’ Grass to give up honour
The Nobel peace laureate Lech Walesa wants the German novelist Günter Grass to give up his honorary citizenship of the Polish city of Gdansk after admitting he served in the Waffen-SS.
What novelists reveal about the minds of murderers
Jason Cowley: Authors are ideally placed to give us a true view of terrorism.
Grass admits serving with Waffen-SS
Günter Grass, the Nobel prize-winning German author, has admitted that he was in the Waffen SS in the second world war.
‘I don’t write to titillate. I censor like crazy to make my blogs less erotic’
Her anonymous sex blog was a runaway success; the book of the blog is a bestseller. But last weekend the true identity of author ‘Abby Lee’ was revealed - and her life was turned upside down. In her first interview, Zoe Margolis talks to Zoe Williams about porn, feminism and breaking the news of her secret writing career to her parents.
Dorothy Uhnak
Obituary: Policewoman turned crime writer whose many novels became television thrillers.