The women-only Orange prize for fiction set out yesterday to discover the British public's most cherished contemporary novels - and found that 58% were by men.
The rebel, the lady, and the resurrection
Strange tale of how prayer to a late bishop raised dead man is found in Vatican.
Politics didn't mar festival
Hay diary: Despite the worries of festival organiser Peter Florence that everyone would be bored by such things by now, Iraq and the Middle East turned out to be major themes at Hay
Why we must thank the Turks, not Drake, for defeating the Armada
The autograph people
Scores on the Scrabble board
No 2,476
On the rack
Making Hay
It takes all sorts at the Hay bucolia
David Aaronovitch
Hay dudes
The A4 challenge
May 2004
UK novel saved by ethnic minorities
American author John Updike last night earned the gratitude of British writers when he assured them that they no longer have an awe-stricken inferiority complex about US novelists.