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Former mental health nurse Nathan Filer has won the Costa Book Award for his first novel The Shock of the Fall.

JK Rowling to publish first book for adults

JK Rowling's first book for adults will be a "blackly comic" tale about an idyllic town ripped apart by a parish council election.

Dunhill

City Spy: A face (book) to a Naim

Aspiring writers take note: we all knew about Facebook’s power to advertise a book, but comely heiress Anne Dunhill has demonstrated how the networking website can be used actually to get one published.

CB I Hate Perfume

Smell like a New Yorker, a New Yorker who smells good.

Covent Garden cuts top rate for new season

As rumours swirl that George Osborne is set to cut the top rate of tax from 50 per cent to 45 per cent, could he be borrowing his economic theories  from the Royal Opera House?

Nottingdale Cafe

Nottingdale Cafe - review

Charles Dickens once wrote that Notting Dale was "a plague spot, scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London". Known as the Potteries and Piggeries, the mid-19th century saw it inhabited by Romany gypsies who crowded into this once boggy marsh. Today their ancestors reside nearby under the Westway and have become TV stars, leaving the dale to be invaded by the denizens of Planets Pop and Fashion.

Nottingdale cafe review

Charles Dickens once wrote that Notting Dale was “a plague spot, scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London”.

Dennis the Menace

Dennis's rare good deed helping children to read

Children are being urged to read for pleasure as part of a festival at the Southbank Centre - with the help of Dennis the Menace.

King's Road closed shop

UK retailers closed 14 stores a day in 2011

The UK's retailers closed more than 14 stores a day on average across the country in 2011, according to data compiled on behalf of PwC by the Local Data Company.

Jen Campbell

Bookseller's novel idea: Publish all the strange questions customers ask

When most shop assistants are confronted with a difficult customer they grit their teeth, smile and get on with it.

HMV posted a further drop in sales in the run-up to Christmas

HMV upbeat despite Xmas sales drop

Entertainment group HMV insisted it still has a future - despite reporting a further drop in sales in the run-up to Christmas.

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