Dan Brown's Inferno heats up book sales
Latest from Da Vinci Code author shifts a quarter of a million paper copies in first week on saleDan Brown's new novel Inferno has soared to the top of the UK's book charts in its first week in shops, selling... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
Iain Banks posts new update to fans on his cancer
Author discusses possibility of chemotherapy, as well as fan letters he's been sending to other writersIain Banks, who announced his diagnosis with gall bladder cancer in April, has posted another update to fans, in which he ruminates on everything from... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
Independent Foreign Fiction prize goes to Gerbrand Bakker
'Mesmeric' storytelling of The Detour secures £10,000 purse, shared with translator David ColmerDutch author Gerbrand Bakker's "haunting" story of a Dutch scholar who retreats to a Welsh farmhouse after an affair has won the Independent Foreign Fiction prize.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
Mali: Timbuktu's literary gems face Islamists and decay in fight for survival
Ancient manuscripts on science and history are symbols of Africa's cultural heritage, say guardians of priceless libraryThere is a proverb in Timbuktu, the legendary medieval city in Mali's desert, that says: "The ink of a scholar is more precious than... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 20 May, 2013
Fiona Shaw to take Ancient Mariner show to New York
The award-winning actor is to revive her epic performance of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's longest poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, for a US premiereOnly a few weeks after her solo Broadway play The Testament of Mary closed early, Fiona... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 20 May, 2013
