If the malevolent Sweeney Todd can sing, why not Patrick Bateman, the twisted title character of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"? A stage adaptation of Ellis' celebrated novel about a handsome, homicidal Wall Street bankers is in the works, featuring a score by "Spring Awakening" composer Duncan ...

LUNAR PARK by Bret Easton Ellis Picador,

Like revolution, fame has a nasty habit of eating its children.

On one level Lunar Park explores the perils that an author faces when subjected to the sort of celebrity usually reserved for rock stars and supermodels. It's not just any old author, either, but Bret Easton Ellis himself.

Or is it ...

The presentation of this year's Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize - an annual literary award given, in alternate years, to a volume of poetry and a novel - was an occasion for harmony and reconciliation. The party took place on the penthouse floor of Faber & Faber's offices in Queen Square, but the winner was not a Faber poet. Rather, it ...