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Andrew O'Hagan follows the rise and fall of a 70s celebrity in his rags-to-riches tale, Personality

When the cinema came to Prague a young writer found scenes from life and the world of dreams. Hanns Zischler finds an author playing a new role in Kafka Goes to the Movies

How can you write a biography of Samuel Pepys? Claire Tomalin lets the world's most famous diarist speak for himself

But if you weren't there, how do you write it? Adam Thorpe gets lost in a hall of mirrors in his novel Nineteen Twenty-One

Rodney Hall deposits the German dictator into a small town in Australia in The Day We Had Hitler Home, but what is he doing there?

Janet Frame was diagnosed as schizophrenic, hailed as a genius - and perhaps was neither. Michael King reveals too much in Wrestling with the Angel

Prophet, artist, politician, healer... all of this and she never gave up her day job. Fiona Maddocks gives a pragmatic account of the life of Hildegard of Bingen

Can we ever really know what happened at Haworth? Lucasta Miller is on the trail of the literary sleuths in The Brontë Myth

Joanna Griffiths picks out Charlotte Mew's Complete Poems

Could ecological footprinting save the Isle of Wight from rising sea levels?

The climate change talks at The Hague were disrupted yesterday by protesters who burst into a negotiating room and staged a sit-in, and by a separate incident in which a woman pressed a chocolate cream cake in the face of the head of the US delegation, Undersecretary of State Frank E Loy, as he gave his daily press briefing.