The British novelist teams up with Quest in a central London park for a touch of secret agent 'role-playing'.

CNN: Quest undercover

In 1857, Joseph Conrad, the Polish-born British novelist, was born.

CNN: Tuesday,

Casualties are few, unless you're like British novelist Marcel Theroux.

WSJ: Who Needs a WeedWacker When You Can Use a Scythe?

Three weeks ago the government managed to soothe Britain about its intentions towards Salman Rushdie, the British novelist who in 1989 was sentenced to death in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini.

ECONOMIST: Iran and Europe

Bulgari's Francesco Trapani took this competition a step further in 2001 when he commissioned Fay Weldon, a well-regarded British novelist, to write The Bulgari Connection, a novel about a woman jailed for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife.

FORBES: One-upwomanship

British novelist Edward St.

WSJ: Hot Series From Hilary Mantel and Edward St. Aubyn: Do You Need to Read the First One?

His first novel, dedicated to a British Jewish novelist, Linda Grant, is a slim but potent meditation on memory and exile.

ECONOMIST: New Arab fiction

"Brutal and declamatory, these brooding and disquieting pictures have been created from the sorting and classification by subject of nearly 4, 000 newspaper headline posters, stolen by the artists over a number of years, " wrote Michael Bracewell, a British writer and novelist, in the show's catalogue.

BBC: White Cube gallery opens in Hong Kong

They included the director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor, the novelist Anita Brookner and the critic Brian Sewell...

BBC: The return of the X Factor