Our publications

Pepys: the making of a diarist

Contributed by: Claire Tomalin

How sport took over my life: Lynne Truss confesses to a journalistic addiction

All in the mind: Adam Phillips on creativity and mental health

Contributed by: Adam Phillips, Joan Bakewell

What’s the use of literature? A panel discussion chaired by Polly Toynbee on studying English

Contributed by: Aminatta Forna, Priyamvada Gopal, Clare Lees, Andrew Motion, Ross Raisin, Michael Wood, Polly Toynbee

Edmund de Waal in conversation with Penelope Lively

Contributed by: Edmund de Waal, Penelope Lively

How to beat the Bounderbys: Jonathan Keates reviews the rewards and difficulties of teaching

Letter from Shortlist Land: Ysenda Maxtone Graham on being a nominee-turned-judge

The house of fame

A narrative gift: Katie Waldegrave on her charity, First Story

Words and deeds: Caroline Moorehead on her work with refugees in Cairo

Immortal prose: how to preserve a writer’s work by James Fergusson

Bankers daft: Michael Holroyd on the inability of banks to deal with writers

Become a Member

Our Members are champions of literature. Their support makes our engagement work in schools and prisons possible and they enable us to celebrate literature in all its wonderful diversity. As a thank you, we give them all the joys of a literary festival and book club rolled into one, all year round.