Monday

Ian McEwan has told the Hay Festival that he ‘hates comic novels”, apparently. Odd. What have they ever done to him?

We are all very keen on blogging at the moment, so I contribute a post to our book blog Paper Tiger. It attracts two comments, one from a colleague. But not one, disappointingly, from the anonymous controversialist who once commented beneath one of my columns for the paper, ‘I eat poo.”