What will you be reading next year? London book fair's star attractions
Salman Rushdie’s take on Don Quixote, Elton John’s memoirs and a study of criminals in Broadmoor – a selection of the biggest and most interesting books announced at the fair
October 2016
Digested read
Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries by Helen Fielding – digested read
The differently peopled book of the film of Bridget Jones’s Baby has its entries abridged by John Crace
March 2016
Fifty shades of shame (or why you won’t find the books I read on my shelves)
Flic Everett
The worthy titles people display at home are often unread, while private passions – from Dan Brown to Christian Grey – are shuffled swiftly off to Oxfam
April 2015
Is romantic fiction a dangerous passion?
Happy endings may not be so reliable in real life, but stories where you know things will work out well cast a potent spell
December 2014
Overstepping the bounds: how blogger Emily Gould has been oversharing
Emily Gould is the oversharing writer and blogger the US literati loves to hate. But is the pillorying she gets a fair response to her candid confessionals or part of an uglier strand of online misogyny? Aaron Hicklin meets her
October 2014
Point of view
India Knight: ‘Chick lit is in its death throes’
Bridget Jones look out – a new breed of risk-taking, not-so-nice literary heroines is replacing the sad singletons, writes India Knight
July 2014
Digested read
How to Build a Girl by Caitlin Moran – digested read
John Crace keeps raging hormones IN CONTROL to render a young woman's journey into music journo stardom in a fab 700 words
February 2014
Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy has sold 100m copies worldwide
Alison Flood: Random House imprint Vintage Books announces global sales of erotic thriller which started life as Twilight fan fiction
January 2014
Books blog
Chick noir: a thoroughly modern Victorian marriage thriller
Chick lit? Hate the term. Love the genre
Lucy-Anne Holmes
December 2013
The Bridget Jones effect: how life has changed for the single woman
Bridget Jones dates her way to the top of the Christmas hardback fiction charts
October 2013
Digested read
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy – digested read
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review
Why do we expect so much from Bridget Jones?
Hadley Freeman
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding – review
September 2013
Shortcuts
Bridget Jones: 11 things we've learned about her life in 2013
Bridget Jones's Diary fans aghast as Helen Fielding kills off Mr Darcy
July 2013
Dan Brown, diets and Swedish fiction: what we've read so far in 2013
Self-publishing showcase
Tracy Bloom: I learned a huge amount from self-publishing
