The QI Annual 2009

The QI Annual 2009 John Lloyd and John Mitchinson

The festive fiefdom of QI follows last year’s estimable ‘E’ Annual with a farrago of ‘F’-themed fabulousness. Fry, fascinating facts, fleas, flamingos ... The QI Empire now includes a new book of banter, QI on audio, and books of all sorts of ignorance. More

Interviews, Memoirs & Letters: Portraits of Writers

[book] stepping stones

Seamus Heaney, Andrew Motion, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are all subjects of books that offer candid insight into the lives, careers and creative processes of poets, through interviews, memoir and letters. Stepping Stones provides the first full-length portrait of the Nobel Laureate. More

Sonnets, Bonnets ... Gonads & ... Mothers-in-Law!: New Non-fiction

[book] sonnets, bonnets

Literary quizzes and books to make you laugh. From the host of the BBC's 'The Write Stuff' comes Sonnets, Bonnets & Bennetts; anagramist Richard Napier asks 'what's in a name' in My Gonads Roar; and Luisa Dillner an oft-maligned family favourite. More

War Horse Rides On: New on the Stage

Book cover: War Horse

After spellbinding audiences last year with its puppetry, it's good to see War Horse back at the National (book here). Don't miss also: David Hare's Gethsemane (National), Neil LaBute's In a Dark Dark House (Almeida) and Andrew O'Hagan's Be Near Me (Donmar). More

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The Sunday Sessions is Philip Larkin reciting 26 of his own poems - recordings that have gathered dust since 1980, but which are now available for the very first time. More

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