He is regarded as one of the most sublime novelists of the age and has won both the Booker and the Nobel Prize for Literature. But in private, Sir Vidia Naipaul, 75, better known as VS Naipaul, ...

Some years ago, at a literary festival where many great, good and gifted (well, some of them) were gathered I am sitting at a table on a hill terrace — the location of the fest — with Sir Vidia ...

Vidia Naipaul with his first wife, Pat, outside their flat in Streatham, south London, in 1961, the year he published his early masterpiece A House for Mr Biswas Born into poverty in colonial Trinidad ...

Sir V. S. Naipaul was in mourning for the death of his cat. Augustus was old, in feline years, and had been exhibiting symptoms of senility. On the eve of his death he had wandered into a distant ...

In between my efforts to improve my sheer manliness by taking courses in cake decorating and learning to knit, I'm not above keeping up with the action going on in the world of Disney's Fairies. Look, ...

Some years ago, at a literary festival where many great, good and gifted (well, some of them) were gathered I am sitting at a table on a hill terrace — the location of the fest — with Sir Vidia ...