From quirky skits to heart-breaking memoir, it's been a great year. By Nicholas Lezard
August 2011
Nicholas Lezard's choice
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam - review
Nicholas Lezard's paperback choice: Candia McWilliam's What to Look for in Winter
August 2010
What to Look for in Winter by Candia McWilliam
Charlotte Higgins on culture
Candia McWilliam, AS Byatt and the ethics of the memoir
What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup
August 2009
Prize-winning novelist has sight restored
After two years of sightlessness, the prize-winning novelist Candia McWilliam can once again see after pioneering surgery cured the rare disorder, blepharospasm, which forced her eyelids to close permanently
March 1999
Shining examples to art and life
'There was an atmosphere nicely poised between a seance and a chess game'