Are women funny? Prize news confirms yes, of course they bloody are
The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize hasn’t had the best form since its inauguration in 2000. The only big award in the UK to celebrate comic literature, it has shamefully just three… Read more »
Love, Nina adapted for the BBC by Nick Hornby
It was the unexpected hit of 2013, a memoir written by the one-time nanny to the editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers. Nina Stibbe’s Love, Nina told… Read more »
Love, Nina: the confessions of London literati’s nanny
In 1982 a 20-year-old woman moved from Leicester to London to take up the occupation of nanny to two boys, to help out their single-mother. She remembers the house was… Read more »