The Independent: “There is something practically Shakespearean about the way in which this pitiless debunker of pompous, self-regarding old men became one himself, a process that was as much visual as behavioural. As Leader’s lavish photo-spreads confirm, late-period Amis – pop-eyed, wattled and damson-faced – bore an uncanny resemblance to his old sparring partner Evelyn Waugh. Reading the excerpts from for-God’s-sake letters lamenting the editorial treatment doled out to ‘a writer of my generation’, eavesdropping on the mid-morning gin-swiller whose defence was ‘Look, I’m Kingsley Amis, you see, and I can drink whenever I want,’ you wonder whether Waugh didn’t have the last laugh.”

CNN: “The 31-year-old CEO drinks eight espressos a day and possesses a work ethic that’s famous around Silicon Valley. He often arrives in the office by six and is still there 12 or even 18 hours later.”

Susan Hill claims that she received an email from a broadsheet books editor blacklisting any books she writes from getting coverage. More from This Space, Scott Pack, and The Guardian Book Blog.