Nobel writer Gordimer, champion of free speech, is accused of censorship
Apartheid fighter halted biography in UK and US, claims author.
Life with Pavarotti: his food, his harem and his ‘stupido’ rivals
Ex-agent claims to expose dark side of opera singer.
Lalo Delgado
Chicano writer who gave Mexican-Americans a voice.
Hyam Maccoby
A Jewish scholar challenging Christian myths.
Killing with carelessness
Most parents worry about paedophiles and drugs - but it is still traffic that is the No 1 cause of death among teenagers. Kate Figes on how we are endangering our children by skimping on road-safety training.
Hello indolence, goodbye job?
Those who dedicate their professional lives to idleness should do so with discretion if they hope to keep their jobs. This is one useful message in Hello Laziness - The Art and the Importance of Doing the Least Possible at the Workplace, an anarchic anti-business bible in France.
Bestseller on honour killing ‘is a fake’
Jordanian-born author Norma Khouri is battling claims that her book Forbidden Love and the life story she has recounted to book groups and journalists on three continents, is a fake.
Saddam’s day: gardening, reading and eating muffins
· First account of Iraqi despot's life in jail
·He is in good health but 'demoralised'
Bars fight to be anointed Papa’s local of choice
Forty-three years after his death, the owners are at odds over which is the "original Sloppy Joe's," the reputed preferred watering hole of the Nobel Prize-winner, Ernest Hemingway, during the 12 years he lived in Florida.
How Disney bypassed God to preach the gospel of dreams coming true
Entrepreneur who became icon of family values shied away from religious imagery, and none of his company's theme parks contains a church, a new book points out.
Paula Danziger
Obituary: Ebullient writer with a natural line to children.
Long wait for the famed charisma
Bill Clinton yesterday visited Waterstone's in Piccadilly, where he signed 1,000 books. One man queued for 25 hours to see the former president.