John Ezard

Ondaatje, Coetzee, Swift, Lessing and Keneally cast aside in favour of novels from lesser-known authors. John Ezard reports.

John Ezard and Sarah Crown try to predict who is going to win the coveted prize.

Ondaatje, Coetzee, Swift, Lessing and Keneally cast aside in favour of novels from lesser-known authors. John Ezard reports.

Zadie Smith’s novel On Beauty and Ali Smith’s The Accidental live to fight another day at the women-only £30 000 Orange prize for fiction, reports John Ezard in London.

If beauty and tranquillity are what you are looking for, look no further than the Free State, with its majestic mountains, fertile valleys, fields of cosmos and sunflowers. In…

Old hat JM Coetzee, Barbara Trapido and Damon Galgut are among some local nominees on the esteemed Booker Prize longlist of 23 novels this year, writes John Ezard in London.

A lost notebook covering three months of the novelist Virginia Woolf’s life in her twenties has been found after lying in an academic’s bottom drawer in Birmingham, Britain, for…

In a rare moment for an auction room, one of the sublime works of thehuman species came under the hammer. John Ezard reports from London.

Within two days of the film’s release, fans had detected at least 32 mistakes in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, writes John Ezard.

An undiscovered poem of high quality by the English poet Philip Larkin was published for the first time this week, writes John Ezard.

Safe oral sex: The risk of a gay man acquiring HIV from oral sex is very low, according to a United States study published in the November edition of the journal AIDS.