2007

Contents

• The RSL guide to the best independent bookshops in Britain
• Rory Stewart explains the difficulty of writing about places
• Anthony Gardner analyses where writers live
• Romesh Gunesekera celebrates an author's London
• Colin Thubron and Tash Aw discuss the Silk Road
• Michael Holroyd on the sin of anger
• Selina Hastings remembers Sybille Bedford
• Peter Kemp pays tribute to Muriel Spark
• Short story: Henry Peplow's winning entry for the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
• G.M. Watkins on her husband Vernon's friendship with Philip Larkin
• Hilay Spurling reports on the use of English in universities
• Jonathan Keates considers poetry set to music
• Fay Weldon on the dominance of the bookseller