Two parallel lives separated by an ocean but united over a social network.

Alfresco will take place on the weekend of 9 June 2012. It won’t have any corporate sponsorship or big names from major record labels, be crowded and full of bad food stalls. It will have a campfire, storytelling, Unbound author talks, talented chefs and quality live music.

Novelist Andrew Miller has won the 2011 Costa Book of the Year, his first major literary award, for his sixth novel, Pure.

Tom McCauley has packed shoes into boxes. He’s chopped turkeys on Christmas Eve. He’s answered phones and swept car parks and been a quality checker of contact lenses. He’s processed your payments, botched your complaints and forgotten to order your replacement cards. This is his story…..

An autobiographical account of how a fractured skull provided an extra ability to find answers to ancient mysteries, where all others have failed to so do

A true chronicle of early working-class life through one family’s eventful route through British history

In the organisation’s 50th year, the humble hand-written letter is being championed once again, in a “penaissance”.

On Tuesday 6th December, ‘Poet in the City’ is holding a special drop-in event on the Frost-inspired theme of Fire and Ice – an opportunity for fans of American poetry to come and read poems of their choice, or of their own, based loosely on the theme.

An unknown theatre sketch entitled ‘Umbrellas’ by 2005 Literature Nobel Laureate, Harold Pinter, has been unearthed at the British Library.

There’s a chance if you visit the Science Museum anytime soon, you many find yourself ending up in a novel or short story. The reason being is that the museum has just announced Mick Jackson as its latest Writer in Residence. He will be based at the Science Museum for one year, finding inspiration deep among its world-class collections and exhibitions.