Literary | Felicity Carter

In praise of wine wankers

What’s the value of a wine critic? Are they just someone selling wine to consumers? Or do they have a deeper role to play?

It was a chilly London day. Barbara Ker Wilson was about to go out for lunch, when yet another manuscript arrived on her desk….

It’s an eternal literary debate: if the critics hate something, but the public loves it, who’s right? The fate of Marie Corelli offers an answer….

A trip to the BBC at Bath to see (and hear) how audiobooks are created.