It's all been going on this weekend...
1) The winners of the Bram Stoker Awards announced
The Bram Stoker awards took place this weekend, at the World Horror Convention, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our very own author, Dacre Stoker, presented the Vampire Novel of the Century award, which was presented to Richard Matheson for his I Am Legend. To find out more about the man who inspired it all, you can purchase The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker.
2) Lord Spicer on leadership battles within the Conservative Party
The author of The Spicer Diaries, Lord Michael Spicer, appeared in the Telegraph, recounting his own experiences with the leadership battles which consumed the Conservative Party post John Major, and pre David Cameron. He speaks of the moment Iain Duncan Smith was close to tears of rage...
3) James Delingpole and the history of Watermelonism
Check out Watermelons author, James Delingpole, on the history of Watermelons; environmentalists who are green on the outside and red on the inside...
4) Steven Berkoff: ‘the film that changed my life’
Over at The Guardian, Steven Berkoff, actor, playwright and author of Tales From An Actor’s Life, tells of the film, and the actor who starred in it, that changed his life. ‘His is a voice of silk and honey, with a particular and peculiar depth...’ Oo-er.
5) Stefanie Powers at the Oxford Literary Festival
Stefanie Powers, author of One From The Hart, spoke at the Oxford Literary Festival this weekend, on film and television as an expression of American culture. Let’s face it, there are few better placed to comment...
6) Immortality reviewed in the Financial Times
Stephen Cave’s upcoming Immortality, about the quest for eternal life and how it drives civilisation, appeared in the Financial Times, and is billed as ‘an epic inquiry into the human desire to defy death – and how to overcome it’.