2010

Contents

• Alan Sillitoe considers the background he shared with Keith Waterhouse
• Dialogue: Beryl Bainbridge talks to Hilary Mantel
• Colin Thubron on his private and public selves
• John Carey reveals an intriguing postscript to his biography of William Golding
• Lucasta Miller explains why women still thrill to the gothic
• Anthony Gardner investigates the boom in creative-writing courses
• Piers Plowright introduces the RSL's new master-classes
• Frances Spalding looks at how authors choose titles
• Short story: Kate Clanchy's winning entry for the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize
• Elizabeth Berridge remembers a literary life, and Tim Manderson remembers her
• Opinion: Philip Pullman, Frances Wilson and Jenny Uglow weigh up the electronic book