Jaipur Literature Festival is known for world-class writers like Vikram Seth, Kiran Desai, Orhan Pamuk and J M Coetzee. See who's in the Pink City in 2012.

Nov 6, 2011 – Simone Preuss

Various aspects of William Shakespeare's early play Titus Andronicus are illuminated by consideration of his poem The Rape of Lucrece

Nov 5, 2011 – Geoff Ward

Suffering from a broken heart or unrequited love? These beautiful quotes might just help soothe your heartbreak

Nov 1, 2011 – Heather Schmitt

His fourth shortlist finally sees 65-year-old Barnes take the big prize

Oct 19, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

How far does our writing reveal a vision of life and the world as pure potentiality? Does it strive to get beyond the values and limits of the quotidian?

Oct 16, 2011 – Geoff Ward

This relatively new form of literature has become the source of film adaptations as well as modern artwork within a few years of its appearance

Oct 12, 2011 – Noemi Csiki

Soecy Gummels is a bilingual novelist and founded Suriname's WAGINA writers group, a women's empowerment initiative focused on writing children's books

Oct 10, 2011 – Karin-Marijke Vis

Not all were surprised when the Swedish Academy announced 80-year-old Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer as the recipient of the Nobel Literature Prize

Oct 7, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

Hours sitting behind your computer screen? It's not good for your body or your soul. Here are some tips for helping to keep writers healthy

Oct 6, 2011 – Susan Trollip

Thresholds are critical to an understanding of Manderley as the setting of Rebecca, and of the narrator's obsessive love and struggle for identity

Sep 30, 2011 – Geoff Ward

It is festival time in Yorkshire! No wellies required though,as the theme is books not bands and the venues theatres rather than muddy fields

Sep 29, 2011 – Jacqui Taylor

The Library of Congress hosts the 2011 National Book Festival on the National Mall, in Washington, D.C. This year's event will be held Sept. 24-25, 2011.

Sep 22, 2011 – Ieva Augstums

Writers, actors and comics have always commented on life, love, parenthood, work and death. Here are a few famous and funny life quotes to cheer you up!

Sep 15, 2011 – Jenny John

From the eighteenth century, the notion of the sublime gained a special fascination for writers as a quality in literature and art

Sep 11, 2011 – Geoff Ward

Following his Miles Franklin award earlier this year, Kim Scott collected Australia's richest literary prize for That Deadman Dance

Sep 8, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

The Erotic Authors Association's Inaugural Conference takes place this weekend at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada

Sep 8, 2011 – Andree Lachapelle

Six books make the shortlist amid accusations of the dumbing down of the prestigious award

Sep 6, 2011 – Keith Lawrence

'Epiphany' was used mainly in the theological sense until the twentieth century when its literary secularisation referred to non-divine forms of revelation

Sep 3, 2011 – Geoff Ward

The choice of autumn books for Richard and Judy's Book Club has been announced. Eight new titles include a dark Scottish mystery and a spooky Arctic voyage

Aug 31, 2011 – Valerie Williamson

Derby Day by D. J. Taylor is favourite to win the Man Booker Prize according to bookmaking firm Ladbrokes

Aug 28, 2011 – Cate Allan