Who is Jonathan Meades exactly? It’s hard to say. Describing him as merely a writer, novelist, documentary maker and cultural critic somehow isn’t enough. It wo... Read More...
Chris Kraus attends a dinner with her husband, Sylvere, and meets a man there called Dick. Dick flirts with Chris and she responds. The next day, inexplicably, ... Read More...
Along with the Nobel and perhaps the Pulitzer, the Man Booker Prize for fiction is one of the most renowned, richest and celebrated book awards. The book prize ... Read More...
Bookselling is the business or practice of engaging in the trading of expert literary knowledge in exchange for meagre payment and/or some other benefit (ie. st... Read More...
If you've ever been curious why poet Declan Ryan thinks Patrick Hamilton is a 'bell end', or why screen writer and journalist Michael Holden thinks daytime sex ... Read More...
On Thursday 6th October we'll once again be getting our kicks in Stepney. The Luxury Book Club literati will be congregating in Genesis Cinema for our next knee... Read More...
You may not know her name, but Georgina Hayden's debut cookbook Stirring Slowly may become your new kitchen staple. After studying Fine Art she worked as a food... Read More...
Scarlet West's wonderful memoir I'd Like To Thank Manchester Air Rifles documents her inner and outer life haunting the pubs of Soho. Scarlet is a compelling ... Read More...
Perhaps it's a reaction to having our faces in technology for the majority of our working day or simply a new understanding of our good old fashioned human need... Read More...
'I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?'
2016 marks the bicentenary of Britain's most beloved literary family - the Brontës. Moved by the spirit of this si... Read More...
Poetic Places, launched this week by the British Library and TIME/IMAGE, is a free app that explores the relationship between literature and place in London... Read More...
Name Malene Engelund
Location Greenwich, London
Occupation Writer
What are you working on right now?
I have just published my poetry pamphlet The Wi... Read More...
Robinson turns somewhere seemingly inert into an absolute horror of social anxiety.
I'm pretty sure we all have those books which would fall into a 'books I wo... Read More...
I'm a shocking abandoner of books. Oh, the nearly-finished literature I've left in my wake...
But there are some novels I know I'll complete before I've even... Read More...
Elvis Presley may be as famous as Jesus Christ or Coca-Cola, but to me he’s just the boy who broke my heart.
It was his beauty that first struck me, but it’s... Read More...
We always knew this day would come...
Or did we?
Many times I've said the words, 'I'll be so upset when David Bowie dies.' But a reassuring voic... Read More...
It absolutely warms my cockles to have discovered the Fine Little Day book. Way back in 2010 when I started what I thought was a blog (but was in fact just a Tu... Read More...
I am writing you this open letter because, well, because I have been meaning to for about 20 years. Our paths crossed once, not that you’d know it: it was at th... Read More...
London Fields is Martin Amis' seminal work and the next novel on the Luxury Book Club reading list. It’s a murder mystery with an absence of mystery. We know th... Read More...
Ballard is undoubtedly one of the most significant and influential writers of post-war Britain. His work foreshadows our contemporary 'nightmare of sex, death a... Read More...
In 2003 I went to see Snow, a small exhibition of the then most recent work of Swiss photographer Thomas Flechtner at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in London. His ... Read More...
Our debut Luxury Book Club event took place last week and it was a raging success. The literati/glitterati gathered at Bar Paragon for some sparkling book-chat ... Read More...
Next April sees the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Brontë, and in celebration, Vintage Classics have reissued Jane Eyre alongside Wutheri... Read More...
At the end of January in 1981, on the streets of Paris, I followed a man whom I lost sight of a few minutes later in the crowd. That very evening, quite by chan... Read More...
We've gone 3D!
Frontlist/Backlist are finally hitting the road (the Mile End Road) with our Luxury Book Club...
Our first novel is Patrick Hamilton's Hang... Read More...
Short stories are better than novels.
Okay, they’re not. It’s a pointless comparison and one that's responsible for impairing the general evaluation of this ... Read More...
‘I am a sick man… I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts.’
So begins Notes from Underground, the misanthropic memoir of a r... Read More...
We're all familiar with the image of the dissolute painter and the debauched poet, but here's Graeme Swanson's pick of books by novelists who also liked to part... Read More...
The digital revolution has had many varying effects on humanity. I did not expect the rise of adult colouring books to be one of them. Though when you think abo... Read More...
