I wasn’t a sporty kid.

Black Vodka & Other Stories

David Bowie fan Suzanne Harrington was blown away by a sneak preview of the incredible new exhibition dedicated to him at the V&A Museum in London

IN ‘Of One Mind’, one of the short stories in Mike McCormack’s new collection, Forensic Songs, the protagonist describes a ‘weightlessness’ that he has come to experience in his everyday life, a sense of being “at a remove, standing at arm’s length from myself.”

Ben wrote short stories as a child. At university, he knew he wanted to be a writer.

I’M JUST guessing, but I don’t think you and I will be rushing out any time soon to take in the new Manchester City biopic Blue Moon Rising.

Anyone who has ever read JG Ballard’s Empire of the Sun (Warner, 21.99) should pick up a copy of this Steven Spielberg two-disc edition.

A SECRET list of 300 top people who snubbed the honours system by refusing knighthoods and other awards was revealed yesterday.