TV and film producer who started in business with rights to the Poldark and I, Claudius novels acquired by Alexander Korda
May 2023
The Laureate review – prosaic Robert Graves biopic
The Laureate review – writers throuple up in sinisterly erotic literary thriller
April 2023
Menage a quatre: why most poetic biopics are romantic fiction
Director William Nunez describes why he focused on a time when the poet Robert Graves – best known for a memoir Goodbye to All That and historical novel I, Claudius – left his wife and family in pursuit of creativity at any cost
January 2023
Oh Deià – how the artists’ colony in Mallorca fell victim to Bransonification
Letters: Bruce Ross-Smith on Deià’s descent into an overpriced playground for plutocrats
October 2021
The importance of using the right language
Letters: Kevin Harper on the need to use plain English, and Peter Branston on new language and Thomas Hardy
March 2021
Top 10s
Top 10 matriarchs in fiction
These women, created by authors from Jane Austen to Colm Tóibín and Toni Morrison, share a compelling reluctance to leave their power at the kitchen door
December 2019
From the Guardian archive
Robert Graves on magical women – archive, 1968
18 December 1968: On a walk in his adopted home of Majorca, the poet talks about women, love, life and death
September 2018
Robert Graves by Jean Moorcroft Wilson review – from war poet to Goodbye to All That
This sober biography includes convincing readings of his poetry, but it takes Graves’s charismatic lover to set the narrative alight
August 2018
Robert Graves: From Great War Poet to Good-bye to All That – review
Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s commanding new biography reveals the poet to be a slipperier character than we imagined
February 2018
This Brexit mess cannot go on. Theresa May must stand down now
Matthew d'Ancona
She is said to be the only senior Tory who could preside over the talks. The trouble is, she’s making Britain an international joke, says Guardian columnist Matthew d’Ancona
December 2017
Carol Rumens's poem of the week
Poem of the week: The Cool Web by Robert Graves
A fierce, small masterpiece, this addresses huge questions of language and war with beguiling ease
September 2017
Country diary
On the vastness of the moor a stumpy gritstone shows the way
Country Diary: Redmires, Sheffield Scored by wind and rain, there is something square-jawed about the stone known as Stump John
August 2017
Top 10s
Top 10 books about tyrants
The novelist Christopher Wilson assembles a rogues’ gallery of despots and dictators from fact and fiction
November 2016
100 best nonfiction books of all time
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 44 – Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves (1929)
Robert Graves’s account of his experiences in the trenches of the first world war is a subversive tour de force
October 2016
Top 10s
Top 10 books about borders
From Bruce Chatwin to Cormac McCarthy, these are some of the best stories about what happens when boundaries – physical, political and psychological – are crossed
February 2015
Booksamillion
Which is your favourite classic book?
As we approach a million followers on Twitter, we’re celebrating with a series on our favourite books. Yesterday we revelled in our earliest reading memories, so today we’ve moved on to classics
September 2014
Alastair Reid obituary
Lessons from Tiberius, forgotten emperor
Natalie Haynes
July 2014
Books blog
School reports on writers deliver very bad reviews
Alison Flood: Charlotte Brontë wrote 'indifferently', according to her teachers, and many another writer's gifts have been roundly trashed by their teachers
