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The rise and fall of clubbing
A new book on the world’s most influential music venues recalls round-the-clock parties in the Roundhouse, writes Dan Carrier
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Malvina, the ‘recording’ artist tuned into Britain
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Paperback writer looks back at Beatles book 40 years on - BEATLES Towers ought to be the name emblazoned on a house in quiet Boscastle Road, Kentish Town...>more
Georgian love story with real heart - MOST writers would kill for Nicholas Tchkotoua’s romantic pedigree. A Georgian prince forced into exile by the ...>more
‘Money has replaced honour and imagination’ - IT was one of the questions I had to ask agony aunt and writer Irma Kurtz. Would she be interested in standing... > more
The banner bright, the symbol plain, of human right and human gain - JOCK Nicolson was a leading Communist in Camden from 1955 for about 30 years. > more
Bill pointed to his own scandal from beyond the grave - SCANDAL in Fleet Street! It is perhaps appropriately perverse that while the Daily Telegraph fulfils... > more
Book talk brings the classics to life - THIS is a book group with a difference, a sitting-room seminar that goes by the name of the Parisian Literary Salon. > more
Did Michael Thomas blow the final whistle on an era? - FORGIVE the dewy eyes but miracles do happen. I saw one happen, 20 years ago next Tuesday. > more
Berger: love in a time of bad and clumsy laws - JOHN Berger must surely be one of the world’s great lovers. At 82, he might crack a smile at the idea, but how... > more
Storyteller of very few words - POSTER art exploded in the inter-war period. > more
Even the bad times were good - IF you want an antidote for the grim budget, then this is it. Hunter Davies’s austerity anthology – Cold Meat And How to Disguise... > more
Battles in times past to keep the planners at bay - AN ATTEMPT to drive a motorway through Swiss Cottage and Belsize Park was one of the best things that... > more
How Che sowed the seeds of Cuba’s success - IT’S 1960, Havana, at the Cuban Ministry for Industry: it was one of the more surreal events John Paul Sartre had... > more
‘I’m sorry I ever left Hampstead’ - THE Dame is returning. Almost a decade after she left Hampstead, the celebrated novelist... > more
The madness of the annoyed - TIME was when anguished young men as well as fragrant but fraught blue-stockinged maidens beat a path to literary Hampstead and... > more
The tension that simmers in America’s backyard - AMERICA: land of the free and champion of democracy. Unless, of course, you are a small... > more
Asylum seeker who became English - A great deal has been written about the arrival of German Jews in the 1930s to this part of London. Intellectuals, all of them. > more
Duffy’s capacity to amaze - THE simple home truth behind Carol Ann Duffy becoming the first woman poet laureate is that the Prime Minister’s appointments... > more
Engels: ‘Grand Lama’ at No 122 - CAMDEN was the birthplace of modern communism.
From the British Museum Reading Room to Highgate Cemetery, from... > more
The son of a bitch who killed Sinatra - THE trouble with Hollywood memoirs is that they kill the fantasy of the films they produce, the ones you have grown up... > more
Journalist Campbell hacking into the world of crime fiction - POOR old ace crime reporter Laurie Lane’s life couldn’t get much worse. A hard-living hack... > more
Birthday Bard: Will and a way to successfully portray Othello - IF ever there was a Shakespeare play which needed celebrities to attract a large audience... > more
The shelf life of bookman, Norrie - THE first time I met Ian Norrie, Hampstead bookseller supreme and publishing world guru, he said: “I thought you were some... > more
A grim fairy story of north London folk - ON a winter’s night, in a desolate piece of heathland, a young woman’s body is heaved into a murky pond. It is an... > more
When we last hit the skids - SUDDEN snowfall in February and a frosty economic climate for all seasons are very 2009 concerns, but to the writer Alan Brownjohn... > more
One life, straddling 100 years of ‘isms’- WITH his debut novel, British-born author Rana Dasgupta threw his cards on the table as if to announce that here was one... > more
Kate’s detective wins her yet more prizes - PRESIDENT Obama grabbed the headlines by taking the Tesco Biography of the Year award at the 2009 Galaxy... > more
20 years on, ‘truth’ remains the goal - HAVE today’s Sky-savvy young football fans even heard of Sheffield Wednesday? The club and its forever haunted... > more
So who’s the greatest swindler of them all? - HE lies in an unmarked grave in Highgate Cemetery, unrecognised, unloved and forgotten. Yet when John Sadleir... > more
When poor Cockneys went to the country - IT is perhaps the greatest of the East End’s many great traditions: the annual trip in the late summer... > more
The unorthodox Russian game - RUSSIAN football – wasn’t that all about tricky awayday assignments on frozen pitches with orange balls... > more
Bet on a long-time dead cert - A LOVEABLE Irish rogue, an upmarket brothel keeper, and the undisputed greatest racehorse of all time are the ingredients... > more
Diary of a Blair regime nobody - MULLIN’S brazen, bare-faced, brass-necked, shameless Harpies’ voice with its dollop of unpardonable chutzpah has... > more
Tips in favour of a work-life balance - SHE locked the door behind her in the vague hope she would not be heard, and sobbed uncontrollably. > more
‘Here’s my first novel – but my next one will be better’ - THE time: the bleak early 1940s, when the Allies appeared to be losing the war... > more
Bedtime reading from Pom Pom, Storm and Minxy - IF it is sex, money and ideas that make the world go round, then there is a distinct lack of loot at the moment...>more
Visionary architect or destroyer of picture book England? - HIS critics blame him for the destruction of English urban life, the man who turned our pretty, picture...>more
Harry’s White Hart (memory) Lane - OH, Spurs are on their way to Wembley... and although Harry Redknapp’s charges are the underdogs for this Sunday’s... > more
A virtuosity shaped by migration - AT the age of seven, when her toes could touch the pedals, Eva Hoffman started piano lessons. A quiet lady called Mrs Witeszczak ...>more
Did you ever hear such a thing in your life? - JACK and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water… or did they? Children have long been taught this traditional nursery...>more
Reflections on the illusions of battle - HAMISH Henderson is not automatically linked with Alun Lewis, Keith Douglas and Vernon Scannell as among the most ...>more
Science genius who discovered ancient China had the answers - TO anyone lucky enough to hear him talk about the history of science in China, Joseph Needham ...>more
Re-inhabiting a past life - WHEN the poet Dannie Abse decided to write a daily journal following the death of his wife Joan, he hoped it would provide an emotional ...>more
A classic novel before it was film - RICHARD Yates was transparently learning his craft in his first novel, Revolutionary Road. It has the sensitivity of language and... > more
A tale to be taken with a pinch of garlic - PUT Highgate Cemetery Vampire into Google and you will have enormous fun reading endless entries for the... > more
If it’s Sunday night, it’s Rety – difficult, yet we love him so - AMONG the behind-closed-doors world of poetry, the word Rety has become an adjective. > more
In times of Troubles, priest who fought for parishioners - IF there is an important autobiography to come out of the recent “Irish Troubles”, this is it.> more
Stellar Sybil, outspoken sage of stage - SYBIL Thorndike was a woman for all seasons. In 68 years she appeared in more than 300 plays and was constantly... > more
Sheer vindictiveness keeps this sick old rascal Ronnie Biggs inside - RONNIE was just a rascal, one of the chaps who got in a little too deep and was cheeky enough... > more
The Crafty Cockey - Eric Bristow - THE riveting victory of Ted “The Count” Hankey over Tony “Silverback” O’Shea in the BDO World Championship Finals on...> more
Structural cracks in the credit system- WHO is to blame for the credit crunch? Is it the banks? The regulators? The politicians? The market? Multinationals? > more
Top of the tyrants: who’s the greatest dictator of them all? - JOE Stalin has been resurrected in Russia, where he just been voted the country’s third-greatest... > more
Strictly misses the point- NEVER mind all those ball gowns and improbable leotards you see on Strictly Come Dancing and the mumbo-jumbo that comes out of... > more
Casting light on the city chick, the romantic and the rebel - WITH the slogan “Illuminating words”, independent publishers Tall-Lighthouse do just that, with a stable... > more
Italian who carries England’s hopes for World Cup glory - ACCORDING to the preface, Mark Ryan “first thought about writing this book in March 2008”. I am... > more
Foot in mouth: occupational disease of our politicians - GORDON Brown made a faux pas during question time in the House of Commons last week, and had... > more
Murder most foul among East Enders - COR blimey, murderous events on the streets of the East End? Sounds like perfect Christmas reading. East End Murders... > more
Perilous life of a Victorian explorer - THE forgotten life of an Amazonian adventurer whose trips into the rainforest in the 1800s helped bolster... > more
An improbable musical genius - HE was a maestro, an impresario with a formidable presence and passion for music who could bring a great... > more
Growing up with Woolfs
- FIVE years ago, Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood, two editors at John Murray, the publishers of Lord Byron and Sir John Betjeman... > more
War on the front line and life on the home front - AS he walked home from Hampstead to Highgate along the Spaniards Lane, and gazed out across... > more
Our champ who took on the Yank NO offence to the population of the town in Hampshire
which prides itself on an annual air show and its nearby military... > more
Winston’s distant mother - WINSTON Churchill always claimed that he was the political heir of his father, the brilliant but maverick Lord Randolph... > more
Clues and the blues in life of star Humph - IF you haven’t played a trumpet, a trombone or even a tuba it’s difficult to appreciate how holding a brass... > more
Stories from the City and tales from the underground - JAMES Curtis was a figure known in the pubs along Kilburn High Road, always happy to pass the time... > more
My stellar son and parents who didn’t follow the script - IT wasn’t easy being an overly sensitive young teenager trying to bring up two starstruck parents on his own... > more
It’s jazz, but if you have to ask... - LOUIS Armstrong, asked to define jazz, famously said: “If you have to ask, you wouldn’t understand anyway." Musical definitions, in... > more
Take a trolley bus ride to Lyons corner house - RICHARD Tames remembers riding on a trolleybus, shopping in Gamage’s, drinking from London street fountains... > more
Where were you when the world was ransacked by the rich and greedy? WHEN I told a group of Americans in Alaska that I had dived under a hedge as a kid when a... > more
Bohemian rhapsody: a birds eye view of ‘Italian’ Bloomsbury- FROM a perch in the front room, the owl would glower silently at any one who entered, descending from... > more
Masud Khan - inside the mind of a brilliant, flawed analyst - OUTRAGEOUS analyst, Muslim, alcoholic, genius, snob, serial adulterer, and anti-Semite: this... > more
Alexei has a kinda change of heart - BEFORE Alexei Sayle was an author, film actor and columnist, he was a stand-up comic. Today, as his fifth book, Mister... > more
Author’s Suspicions clinch a top award - AS a journalist and former national newspaper literary editor, Kate Summerscale knows the inside secret score and the hassle... > more
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