In China, Objections to Google’s Book Scans
Two Chinese writers’ groups claim that Google has scanned Chinese works into an electronic database in violation of international copyright standards.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 31 October, 2009
Benjamin Britten's diaries reveal boys, bitching and brilliance
Writings show composer as lonely but driven and with low opinions of his rivalsBenjamin Britten's early years are often ignored, overshadowed by the spectacular success of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, when he was 31.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 31 October, 2009
Ayn Rand’s Revenge
Anne C. Heller’s biography conveys the conviction and odd charisma of Ayn Rand, whose individualist message is still resonant for American conservatives.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Raising the Dead
This novel’s Frankenstein hobnobs with Byron and the Shelleys.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
The Dossier
Kati Marton read her parents’ secret police files to research this powerful narrative of their imprisonment in Stalinist Hungary.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
In the Long Run
Brief introductions to the life and theories of the economist John Maynard Keynes from Peter Clarke and Robert Skidelsky.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
One for the Good Guys
It’s hard to say why these early stories — polished, fun to read, neatly ended — went unpublished in the age of the “slicks.”... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Armchair Traveler: Book Review: The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier
A writer recounts an improbable journey across Eastern Europe and Asia with a friend.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
A New York Forkful
A former Times restaurant critic offers a vivid, entertaining culinary history of New York City.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Essay: What to Write Next
If you’re anything like me, figuring out what to write next can be a real hassle. Here’s a guide to picking a genre for your next novel.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
TS Eliot broke and exhausted one year after Waste Land
TS Eliot's poem The Waste Land may have made him an international literary star but 12 months after it was published he was penniless exhausted and on the verge of a breakdown.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Wilderness Warriors
Theodore Roosevelt and his eccentric chief forester make a very odd couple in this account of the founding of the United States Forest Service.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
The Objects of the Exercise
Which came first — Orhan Pamuk’s museum or his new novel, “The Museum of Innocence”?... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Lolita on the Bosporus
The city of Istanbul is on exhibit in this novel of first love painfully sustained over a lifetime.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Brutal Terrain
This military history of the Civil War emphasizes geography’s role in shaping strategy.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
I, Banker
An admiring biography of Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, who the author believes can point Wall Street in a new direction.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Closed Circles
In this novel, a loner obsessed with ancient Sparta is drawn to a mysterious clique at an archaeological dig.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Renaissance Men
Tolerant, passionate and humane, Thomas Cromwell is cast as the picaresque hero of this Man Booker Prize-winning novel of Henry VIII’s turbulent court.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Crime: Death Unleashed
Mystery novels by Ruth Rendell, Michael Connelly, Anders Roslund and Borge Hellstrom, and Archer Mayor.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Malcolm Gladwell’s “What the Dog Saw” enters at No. 3, while Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner land at No. 2 with “SuperFreakonomics.”... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young3. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson5. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Story featuring gay parents excluded from US school book fairs
Lauren Myracle told she must rewrite Luv Ya Bunches before it could be included in educational eventsUS publishing giant Scholastic has insisted that it "does not censor books" in the wake of a fierce row over US children's author Lauren... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Borders in talks over website
Borders is reported to have entered...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Cultured Traveler: Rare Books Don’t Always Live in Glass Cases
Dozens of libraries across the United States house dazzling collections, but largely remain unfamiliar to the public.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Move quick on apps or lose out, warning to publishers
Slow-moving publishers risk being left out of...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
The new thing in romantic fiction: zombie love
Anthology of undead romance is next stage in vogue for 'demon lovers'Romance readers have been getting their kicks from vampiric lovers for years but more unlikely breeds of supernatural heroes are set to hit bookshelves : zombies, demons – and... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Dugdall wins the 2009 Bitmead bursary
Unpublished author Ruth Dugdall has won the...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
CUP pulls book over anti-Semitism claims
Cambridge University Press has pulled a...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Top Christmas titles ‘selling less’ in 2009
The threshold for publishers to get their...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Bertrams looks for 'acquisition opportunities'
Wholesaler Bertrams is looking at...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Reps 'locked out' at Waterstone's
Waterstone’s shop-floor staff are too busy to...... More...
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Friday, 30 October, 2009
Fiction resurgent in Guardian First Book award shortlist
Powerful fictional storytelling dominates the shortlist of this year's Guardian First Book award, announced today, which includes works that range from a portrayal of Alzheimer's to a novel that was the subject of a bidding war between 10 publishers.Three novels,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 30 October, 2009
Books of The Times: The Meals of His Life
The publishing impresario Jason Epstein’s slim memoir is delicious, in its minimalist, essayistic way. But it sends you out the door a bit hungry, and stone sober.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
20 of the most shameless cultural franchises
If the actor dies the singer quits or the writer can't work fast enough that's no reason to stop churning out culture. Here are 20 triumphs of money or stubborn longevity over art.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max2. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner3. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson3. HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford4. TRUE DETECTIVES, by Jonathan Kellerman5. SCARPETTA, by Patricia Cornwell... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner3. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell4. TOO BIG TO FAIL, by Andrew Ross Sorkin5. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. THE SCARPETTA FACTOR, by Patricia Cornwell3. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn4. NINE DRAGONS, by Michael Connelly5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Muirden leaves APA after 11 years at the helm
Ali Muirden has resigned as the chair of the...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
PA backs Mandelson's plan to combat piracy
The Publishers Association has said it...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Children's publishers question value of book festivals
Children’s publishers are evaluating their...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Fantasy author to write new 'Isaac Asimov' novels
Mickey Zucker Reichert signed to produce new series of Dr Susan Calvin storiesPublishing's enthusiasm for the undead – which has already this autumn seen posthumous sequels published to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dracula, Winnie the Pooh and Noddy... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Asterix and the golden jubilee
As the perennially plucky Gaul turns 50, Michelle Pauli travels to France to meet his co-creator and the translator who helped him conquer an English readershipAsterix fever is hitting the French capital this week. As the doughty little Gaul and... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Retailers plan for further postal strikes
Amazon.co.uk has said that only a "limited"...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Analysis: As in His Play, Agassi Pushes the Limit in His Book
The eight-time Grand Slam singles champion has taken a soul-stripping approach, including an admission he used crystal meth.... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Muirden leaves APA after 11 years at the he
Ali Muirden has resigned as the chair of the...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Mandelson wants to curb piracy, and update copyright law
Lord Mandelson has confirmed that persistent...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Macmillan US opens up new front in battle over e-book royalty rates
Macmillan US has introduced a news standard...... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Kennedy Library Gets Hemingway Papers From Cuba
Cuba's Ministry of Culture has given the John F. Kennedy Library copies of letters and documents Hemingway amassed during his years in Cuba, including corrected proofs of "The Old Man and the Sea'' and an alternate ending to "For Whom... More...
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Thursday, 29 October, 2009
Astérix conquers Paris with 50th birthday exhibit
For half a century they have been fending off Roman attacks from their village, armed only with fearlessness, flying menhirs and a cauldron of magic potion. But now Astérix and his band of indomitable Gauls are invading Lutetia – modern-day... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Gumshoes, Sleuths and Cops, Squealed on by Scribblers
Some of the most famous mystery novelists around riff about their best-known characters in this exciting omnibus volume of essays.... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Keats-Shelley prize goes to Buddhist poet
DH Maitreyabandhu takes £3,000 award for 'a wonderful evocation of the nature of childhood'The Keats-Shelley prize, an annual award for the best poem on a Romantic theme, has for the first time this year gone to an explicitly Buddhist poet,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Ahern to appear on 'virtual' world tour
HarperCollins has teamed up with Skype to...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
The battle for Jack Kerouac's estate
The daughter that Jack Kerouac disowned and an apparently forged will ignite the dispute over ownership of his estate.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Foyles to stock e-readers, launches e-book store
London independent Foyles is to stock...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Spiritual press Fitzrovia launches
A new press, publishing spiritual books aimed...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Ang Lee to deliver Life of Pi adaptation
Ang Lee is "delivering the first draft" of...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Chambers Harrap to close on 31st December
Hachette UK has finally reached an agreement...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Hodder to sponsor Nickelodeon's Halloween
Hodder Children¹s Books is to sponsor...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Ang Lee boards Life of Pi film
Director says he has cracked the structure of Yann Martel's allegorical novel about a boy adrift at sea with a tigerIt has been stuck in development hell for much of the past decade, but the big-screen version of Yann Martel's... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Mark Gatiss to star in The First Men in the Moon
League of Gentlemen actor plays Professor Cavor in his own BBC4 adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction comedy thriller... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
VS Naipaul 'killed off by FBI in court footnote'
The novelist VS Naipaul has been "killed off" by the FBI in court documents filed in a case against suspected Islamist terrorists.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
VS Naipual 'killed off by FBI in court footnote'
The novelist VS Naipual has been "killed off" by the FBI in court documents filed in a case against suspected Islamist terrorists.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Sky1 unveils new book show
Sky is to introduce a book section that will...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Old Street gets talking Utter Zebu
Old Street has launched a "guerilla"...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Lonely Planet not for sale, says BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide has said it has no plans to...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
London MP to highlight 'dire situation' for booksellers
A London MP will today highlight the "dire...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Indie bookshops defying 'boarded up Britain' label
More than 25,000 shops have closed on the...... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
'Zeitoun' As Cartoon: Demme Plans Animated Film of Eggers Book
Jonathan Demme, whose films include "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Rachel Getting Married," said that he had acquired the film rights to "Zeitoun," whose cover had inspired him to make it into a cartoon.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Rosenquist Writ Large, by Himself
The painter James Rosenquist’s new memoir is an unexpected treat: a ruddy and humble book, lighted from within by the author’s plainspoken, blue-collar charm.... More...
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'The Lost Symbol' back in the lead
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Wednesday, 28 October, 2009
Serving Literature by the Tweet
Readers can enjoy Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, any way they like: on paper, Kindle, e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Sarah Palin earned $1.25m advance for Going Rogue memoir
• HarperCollins has planned initial print run of 1.5m copies• Book penned with conservative writer Lynn VincentFor a politician known more for her folksy expressions than her literary prowess, Sarah Palin has made enough money on her yet unpublished first... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Books: The Tools of Doctors, and a Price for Patients
Two adventures into areas of medicine that aren’t necessarily about the doctors or the diseases.... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Jordan is just 'two bags of silicone' says Martin Amis
Martin Amis the author has become the latest literary heavyweight to attack celebrity novelists dismissing the modelturnedwriter Jordan as merely "two bags of silicone".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Stephen King writes debut comic book
Novelist sinks teeth into graphic storytelling with American Vampire seriesStephen King is the latest mainstream author to turn to comics with a new series about a distinctly American vampire, powered by the sun, set to launch next spring.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
MP warns that rate rises could wipe out historic London booksellers
Mark Field highlights plight of Cecil Court, where business-rate rises are driving shops 'to the edge'The "dire situation" for the booksellers of London's Cecil Court will be highlighted today by local MP Mark Field as he calls on the government... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Dan Brown holds top spot as non-fiction bears the cost
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam Press)...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Balding bikes around Britain for Batsford
TV presenter and sports journalist Clare...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Steve Rubin joins Macmillan's Henry Holt
Steve Rubin has joined Macmillan US imprint...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Virgin buys Branson's story of flight
Virgin has bought the rights to Richard...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Transworld acquires "phenomenal" history series
Transworld has bought the rights to three...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Doctor's notes in running for John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Book that grew out of blog by Canadian doctor James Maskalyk shortlisted for award alongside Booker and Orange winnersA memoir by Canadian doctor James Maskalyk about the six months he spent working in a contested Sudanese border town is competing... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Don Ivan Punchatz, Artist for Fantasy Book Covers, Dies at 73
Mr. Punchatz’s surreal art was splashed on popular horror and science-fiction paperbacks, magazines and the first “Star Wars” film poster, influencing a generation of illustrators.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Gerry Johnson denies hub 'backlog' at Waterstone's
Waterstone's managing director Gerry Johnson...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Speculation mounts over future of Lonely Planet
Speculation is mounting into the BBC's sale...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Hachette offers enhanced settlement for Chambers staff
Chambers Harrap remaining in Edinburgh as...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
HC acquires "luminous" series from illustrator Percival
HarperCollins has bought world-wide rights...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Midson leaves Bloomsbury for S&S
Bloomsbury publicity director Colin Midson is...... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Stephen Rubin Takes Over at Henry Holt & Co.
Stephen Rubin, the former publisher of Doubleday Publishing Group who worked closely with authors including Dan Brown, John Grisham, Pat Conroy and Bill Moyers, is the new president and publisher of Henry Holt & Company.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Plaster Problems in Emily Dickinson's Parlor
Part of the ceiling at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst. Mass., collapsed on Sunday afternoon while the house was open for tours.... More...
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Prix Goncourt book prize to be awarded November 2
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Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Mock Palin memoir to coincide with book's release
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Tuesday, 27 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Father and Son in a Vortex of Chaos
“Last Night in Twisted River” showcases all of John Irving’s biggest liabilities, but evolves into a deeply felt and moving story.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Doctor's mistakes to blame for Keats's agonising end, says new biography
Dr James Clark's series of misdiagnoses left poet starving and in agony, argues study of Joseph SevernThe agonies of John Keats's final months in Rome were partly the result of his doctor's misdiagnoses, according to a new biography.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Angels are the new vampires, says Anne Rice
Vampire Chronicler shifts supernatural gear with new novel, joining a host of similar books due out this autumnAngels are the new vampires of the literary world, according to the doyenne of vampire fiction Anne Rice, who is about to launch... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Mitterrand calls for common stance over digitisation in the EU
French culture minister Frédéric Mitterrand...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Philip Roth predicts novel will be minority cult within 25 years
'The book can't compete with the screen,' says veteran American author as his latest novel is publishedPhilip Roth's late run of productivity has long been a source of wonder in the literary world, with his latest novel coming out this... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Amazon launches iPhone App in UK
Amazon.co.uk has soft-launched an application...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Retailers reroute orders during postal strike
Waterstone's is encouraging customers to have...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Fidel Castro's sister reveals CIA collaboration in new book
Juanita Castro broke with Cuban revolution and collaborated with US intelligence in 1960s, she tells television interviewerJuanita Castro, sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raúl Castro, co-operated with the CIA in the 1960s when the US agency was plotting to... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Le Carré leaves Hodder for Penguin after 38 years
John le Carré is moving from Hodder &...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Square Peg acquires Texts From Last Night
Square Peg has bought the rights to a...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Amazon working on 'Kindle app for Mac'
Amazon is "working on a Kindle app for Mac",...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Critics want longer to consider new Google Settlement
Critics of the Google Settlement have asked...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Reviewer quits over 'sadistic misogyny'
Award-winning crime novelist and Literary...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Four percent of British have read an e-book
Four percent of British people have read an...... More...
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Monday, 26 October, 2009
Books of The Times: For Starters, a Satanic Svengali
Piers Dudgeon’s “Neverland,” a crowded and frustrating book about the life and work of J. M. Barrie, blends scholarship, name-dropping and scandal-seeking heavy breathing.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 26 October, 2009
Uncovered: unfinished play that had Lord Edward Herbert tied up in knots
Rediscovered manuscript shows why James I never got to see boastful playwright's The Amazon... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 25 October, 2009
Poet John Keats suffered agonising death at hands of bungling doctor new book claims
The Romantic poet suffered an agonising death due to the bungling doctor's misdiagnosis the new biography claimed.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 25 October, 2009
Giving Voice to Stories From the Printed Page
Listen Here, presented by an alliance of New Haven arts groups, presents short story readings in a coffeehouse setting.... More...
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Sunday, 25 October, 2009
Israel's National Library adds a final twist to Franz Kafka's Trial
German museum asked to hand back author's disputed manuscript to correct 'historical error'Israel's National Library is calling on a German museum to hand over the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial to correct a "historical error", in the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 25 October, 2009
Suez just as ordinary Britons saw it: no wonder this is history that sells
The second volume of David Kynaston's chronicle of postwar Britain has the virtues of the first – insight into the concerns of everyday people as well as those of their rulersOn 30 October 1956, Britain teetered on the brink of... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 25 October, 2009
First black woman tipped for top French book prize
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Sunday, 25 October, 2009
Celebrity novels: why it's a boom time for ghostwriters
From Katie Price and Kerry Katona to Fern Britton and Ulrika Jonsson it seems every celebrity has a novel in them. Which is where ghostwriters like myself come in...... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Celebrity novels? I'm lost for words
Last week Lynda La Plante bitterly attacked novels 'written' by celebrities. Nigel Farndale reports on a trend that could soon see Cheryl Cole and Sharon Osbourne join Katie Price and Kerry Katona on the bestseller lists... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Europe's earliest road atlas - from 1675
The first road atlas of its kind in western Europe a 17th century book showing a highway network in England and Wales of just 73 roads is to be sold at auction for up to £9000.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Norma Fox Mazer, Novelist for Young Adults, Dies at 78
Ms. Mazer was an award-winning novelist for young people whose work helped illuminate many dark corners of adolescence.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Funny You Should Ask
This novel is a courageous and entertaining meditation on the sublime and the trivial, written in an all-question format.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
The War at Home
This historical novel’s lustful, murderous protagonist has a tie to the author.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Unplugged
In this novel of obsessive fandom, a reclusive singer-songwriter’s new album upends several lives.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Fiction Chronicle
Story collections by Lydia Davis and Sherman Alexie; novels by Anita Shreve, Michael Mewshaw, and Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
You Gotta Have Clutch
A dialogue between two World Series stars, Reggie Jackson and Bob Gibson, about their glory days.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Song of India
A comedy of manners about a musician coming of age in status-conscious 1980s Bombay.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
God Gets Graphic
In his serious graphic rendering of the Bible’s first book, R. Crumb resists the temptation to exaggerate the text’s most strange or sordid aspects.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
The Army You Have
The story of the critical transformation of the Army in Iraq, told through profiles of four generals.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Picturing the Depression
A highly political biography of a transformative figure in modern photojournalism, the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Night Visions
These dystopic Stalin-era stories, which read like dream diaries, went unpublished for decades.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Generations A Through L
A family’s fortunes rise and fall over the 300 years of Hungarian history that gracefully unfold in this novel.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Slow Down, Sign Off, Tune Out
John Freeman urges compulsive e-mail users to step away from the in-box.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
To Glamour Born
This biography of Elizabeth Taylor keeps the spotlight trained on her most glorious, and most fiery, years.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
The Longest Fjord
This concluding volume to a sprawling Norwegian trilogy is less a great novel than an overextended riff on greatness’s trimmings and one itinerant soul’s hunger for them.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Another World
This exuberant novel set in a drug-addled, alternate-reality Manhattan is at its heart a traditional story of moral and intellectual development.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Crossroads: Where Is U.S. Foreign Policy Headed?
Virtually all thinkers about foreign policy today are proposing a return to something old.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin3. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls5. THE... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young3. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger4. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom2. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others3. HIGHEST DUTY, by Chesley B. Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow4. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy5.... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn3. NINE DRAGONS, by Michael Connelly4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks... More...
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
Hungarian writer wins Manes-Sperber prize
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Saturday, 24 October, 2009
US bookshops urge regulator to investigate online price war
Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target are making loss leaders out of bestsellers, say US booksellers... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Second series for Bookaboo likely
A second series of the children’s picture...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Authors experiment with Twitterfiction
Neil Gaiman and Melvin Burgess are the latest authors to explore the potential of storytelling in 140-word burstsFor Neil Gaiman, it began with a disconcerting image of a girl spoken to by her reflection in a mirror. For Melvin Burgess,... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Mark Booth acquires art history for Hodder
Mark Booth has made his first acquisition...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
C&R launches fiction list with a free spirit
The latest book by the author of mash-up hit...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Twitter lacks noise with serious readers
Social networking sites like Facebook and...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
ABA calls for investigation into discounting
The American Booksellers Association has...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Amazon profits swell 68%, int sales up 33%
Amazon has continued to fight off the...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Edinburgh's librarians "completely demoralised" after service restructure
Librarians across Edinburgh are said to be...... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson3. HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford4. TRUE DETECTIVES, by Jonathan Kellerman5. JUST AFTER SUNSET, by Stephen King... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
The family of Bram Stoker is trying to get back in on the vampire action with “Dracula: The Un-Dead,” co-written by Stoker’s great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker.... More...
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Japanese university plans huge 'manga' library
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Publishers delaying e-book releases to force print sales this Christmas
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Friday, 23 October, 2009
Book Association Challenges Retailers’ Price Plan
A trade group for independently owned bookstores has asked the Justice Department to investigate what it describes as “predatory pricing” by Amazon, Wal-Mart and Target.... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Two Storytellers, Singing the Blues
Kazuo Ishiguro’s story collection, “Nocturnes,” chronicles the gentle regrets of middle age; Philip Roth’s new novella, “The Humbling,” the ragings of old age.... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Jordan is prime suspect in death of publishing says Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante the doyenne of crime fiction has just subjected Katie Price the model better known as Jordan to what counts in literary circles as grievous bodily harm.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Hatchards latest to sell Sony Readers
London bookshop Hatchards has begun selling...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Publishers canvassed over digital innovation funding
The Technology Strategy Board is calling on...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Virgin acquires personal Battle of Britain tales
Virgin Books has acquired a new book of...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Four Burton thrillers to Michael Joseph
Michael Joseph has bought the rights for four...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
TS Eliot prize shortlists poets 'who have dreamed and who have dared'
Chair of judges Simon Armitage says writers 'in a holding pattern' have been passed overDon Paterson's Forward prize-winning collection Rain has been overlooked for this year's TS Eliot prize, which has selected a shortlist of 10 poets "who have dreamed... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 22 October, 2009
British readers vote Harlan Coben their favourite crime writer
US author wins Bestseller Dagger award by popular vote ahead of homegrown talentBritish readers have shown that they prefer the slick fiction of US author Harlan Coben to the home-grown talents of Alexander McCall Smith, Nicci French, Dick Francis and... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Library Review out 'in November'
The delayed Library Service Modernisation...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Carcanet catches three on Eliot shortlist
Carcanet has picked up three nominations for...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Coben picks up crime award, La Plante slates celeb authors
US crime writer Harlan Coben was named this...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Bertrams books a profit after five months with Smiths News
Wholesaler Bertrams reported underlying...... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Book Fair Fires Official for Approach to Chinese
The Frankfurt Book Fair blamed its project manager for “persistent coordination problems” with China, the fair’s “guest of honor.”... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
British Journalist, Ludovic Kennedy, Dies at 89
Mr. Kennedy campaigned against miscarriages of justice and religious dogmatism and in support of euthanasia and independence for his native Scotland.... More...
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'Lost Symbol' knocked from its perch
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Comic book releases (North America): The Avengers continue the hunt for Captain America
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Thursday, 22 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Twin Biographies of a Singular Woman, Ayn Rand
“Ayn Rand and the World She Made” and “Goddess of the Market” are being published a week apart.... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
To Honor a Battler, Literary Peace Breaks Out
New York’s literary elite gathered on Tuesday night for an awards dinner to support the newly created Norman Mailer Writers Colony.... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Coben picks up ITV3 viewers award
US crime writer Harlan Coben was named this...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
A New Electronic Reader, the Nook, Enters the Market
The publishing community had generally positive views of the device and was relieved that the popular Kindle would have a competitor.... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
NUJ calls in lawyer over Chambers Harrap
The consultation into the closure of the...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Márquez targeted by Mexican intelligence agency, files show
Defunct DFS service bugged Colombian author's phone and tracked his movements, starting in 1967Mexico's intelligence service spied on the writer Gabriel García Márquez for decades and considered him a Cuban agent, it emerged this week.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Spoof biographies look to spoil Sarah Palin's book launch
Going Rouge, a parody of the former vice-presidential candidate's 'mom's eye view' of US politics, Going Rogue, will hit stores next month on the same day as its targetFor those unable to stomach Sarah Palin's forthcoming "mom's-eye view of high-stakes... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Frankfurt wrap: Mood turns positive at the fair
Publishers have talked of a "purposeful" and...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Indian subcontinent dominates Man Asian literary prize shortlist
Two Indian and one Kashmiri-born novelists compete against Chinese and Filipino authors for $10,000 prizeThe final for this year's Man Asian literary prize is dominated by writers from the Indian subcontinent. Of the five shortlisted authors, two are Indian and... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Egmont looking to grow young adult publishing
Egmont is looking to beef up its fiction and...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Graham joins Enhanced Editions
Former Granta Publications m.d. David Graham...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Google Book 'finger condoms' cause mirth
Sheathed fingers of scanners at Google Book provoking mirth online.... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
A bit foreword! Nelson Mandela plans legal action over 'fake endorsement'
Nelson Mandela denies writing introduction praising Congo-Brazzaville's president as a 'great African leader'... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
'Comic' retells Honduran coup and Manuel Zelaya arrest
Graphic history frames overthrow of president in relation to century of US skullduggery in central AmericaAt first glance it could be a children's comic – but in fact it's a journalistic take on the Honduran crisis with an attention to... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Porter latest to leave Granta
In further upheaval at literary magazine...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Literary Life
Mark Sanderson discovers bookworld quirks including odd titles story downloads literary pets and a woman who reads a book a day... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Barnes & Noble's 'nook' e-book reader takes on Kindle
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Barnes & Noble unveils its nook
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has launched its...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Waterstone's tells staff to use Gardners for delayed customer orders
Waterstone's stores have begun receiving...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Oz booksellers look for compromise over imports
Australian booksellers are pushing for a...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Winged Chariot achieves high sales of app
Winged Chariot Press, which last month...... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight
Book sellers are making the case that people are reading more because of e-books.... More...
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Google Books project draws fire in China
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'Lost Symbol' knocked from its perch
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
Comic book releases (North America): The Avengers continue the hunt for Captain America
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Wednesday, 21 October, 2009
In Book-Pricing Battle, How Low Can They Go?
Target has entered the battle to bring down the price of some of the holiday season’s biggest anticipated hardcover books. And Wal-Mart, which started it all, immediately fired back.... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Giant Steps for Womankind, but Still Miles to Go
Gail Collins’s “When Everything Changed” is an informative, panoramic survey of the progress women have made toward gender equality since 1960.... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
In His Own Literary World, a Native Son Without Borders
Sherman Alexie has followed the success of his young-adult novel, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” with a volume of short stories and poetry.... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Nelson Mandela Foundation accuses Congo president over fake foreword
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of CongoBrazzaville after he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the antiapartheid leader.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Frankfurt sacks official over China fall-out
The Frankfurt Book Fair has fired project...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Lonely Planet developing trip tool for Google Wave
Lonely Planet is developing its digital...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Brown continues to lead fiction charge
Dan Brown has notched up his fifth successive...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Nordic writers sweep the board in US crime awards
The Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason and the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson were honoured at the major US mystery convention BoucherconAmerica's reputed long-standing indifference towards literature in translation was thrown in doubt this weekend when Icelandic author Arnaldur Indridason and... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
NUJ keeps pressure on Hachette over Chambers Harrap
The National Union of Journalists, backed by...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Canongate puts Obama on the App
US president Barack Obama's bestselling...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell'
Children's author gives short shrift to concerns that Where the Wild Things Are is too frightening for childrenParents who think the new film of Maurice Sendak's picture book Where the Wild Things Are is too frightening for children can "go... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Philip Roth joins his own tribute bus tour in Newark
Author accompanies fans visiting the landmarks fictionalised in his novelsTaking in the landmarks of his novels, from Weequahic Park in The Plot Against America to Goodbye, Columbus's Newark Museum, the Philip Roth bus tour is a must for fans visiting... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Real authors 'dispirited' by celeb-lit, says Mail
"Author anger as stars stampede to write a...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Roald Dahl characters still dominate children's favourites
Booktrust poll of 5 to 12-year-olds, topped by Harry Potter, finds four Dahl inventions among the top 20 best lovedRoald Dahl's tales of the unexpected continue to exert a magical pull on children's imaginations almost 20 years after he died,... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Alex and Que to face off against Kindle
Two new e-book reading devices have been...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Agent Lorella Belli inks four new deals
Agent Lorella Belli has made four new...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Education and 'good publishing' at Penguin drive Pearson
Penguin has seen double-digit growth in the...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
DK launches e-guides for Kindle and iPhone
DK Eyewitness Travel has broadened its...... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Live Blog: Barnes & Noble Unveils E-Reader
Barnes & Noble introduced its own electronic reader on Tuesday.... More...
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Church attacks Portuguese Nobel Prize-winner over new book
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
More Chinese titles set to hit world market after Frankfurt book fair
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Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Changing the Subject, Maintaining the Tone
This book full of short conversation pieces is a collection that plays to the author’s strengths.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Field Study: Just How Relevant Is Political Science?
Even some of the most vehement critics of Senator Tom Coburn’s proposal to prohibit federal funding of political science projects acknowledge that scholars themselves are vigorously debating the field’s direction.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Theater Review | 'Good Bobby': A Kennedy, From Shy Kid to Politician
There’s a lot to like in “Good Bobby,” a biographical play about Robert F. Kennedy. Yet only occasionally is there something to love.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Theater Review | 'Hansel and Gretel': Makeover for a Brother-and-Sister Act
At its best, this wild production embraces the dark undercurrents of “Hansel and Gretel.”... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
A Raconteur of Nature’s Back Story
If there were a celebrity of the evolutionary world, Richard Dawkins would certainly be it.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Art Review: Books Read and Unread Are Turned Into Totems, With Every Scuff Intact
The painter and sculptor Steve Wolfe has taken his bibliophilia to unrivaled extremes.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
EU launches new consultation into digital copyright
The European Commission is increasing its...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Publishers on starting grid with Button
Haynes Publishing is rush releasing a...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Faber launches POD store with Amazon.co.uk
Faber has teamed up with Amazon to create a...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Profile to publish Blair memoirs
Profile will publish the memoir of former...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Frankfurt 'concentrated and quiet', says Boos
This year's Frankfurt Book Fair was the...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Agatha Christie's picnic basket – junk or artefact? You decide
University College London has a jumbled collection of objects and is asking visitors to vote on what deserves to be keptAgatha Christie's picnic basket – a wonderfully Miss Marple-ish object holding a bizarre assemblage including fragments of 4,000-year-old pottery, a... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 19 October, 2009
EU books could be removed from Google deal
European books could be removed from a...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Trewin succeeds Bragg at writing academy
Ion Trewin, literary director of the Man...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
W H Smith to expand into offices
W H Smith plans to open around 10 shops in...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
EU launches digital library at Frankfurt
The European Union used the world's biggest...... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Uneasy Engagement: At Book Fair, a Subplot About Chinese Rights
At the Frankfurt Book Fair, what Beijing hoped would be a celebration of cultural achievements became a tug of war between control and free speech.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Boy to Man: Amazing Adventures
Michael Chabon demonstrates once again his ability to write about the big subjects of love and memory and regret.... More...
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Dracula revived by Bram Stoker descendant
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Frankfurt Book Fair suffers slight drop in attendance: official
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Vargas Llosa completes new Belgian Congo novel
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Fury in Frankfurt at Google's global library project
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
EU launches digital library at Frankfut Book Fair
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Fury in Frankfurt at 's global library project
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Monday, 19 October, 2009
Media Cache: France Moves to Win Back Control of Content
French publishers and news providers are cooking up original ways to fight the perceived threat of cultural domination by U.S. giants like Google and Amazon.... More...
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Sunday, 18 October, 2009
Storm erupts over Edinburgh International Book Festival's new director
Facebook campaign to rescind appointment of Nick BarleyThe Edinburgh International Book Festival, once described as " a cosy tea party in Charlotte Square", has been stirred by furious opposition to its new director, Nick Barley. Within hours of being appointed... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 18 October, 2009
New film Where the Wild Things Are sends parents into a 'rumpus'
The screen adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 morality tale has sparked a debate about the merits of frightening our childrenWhen Jess Hyde picked a copy of Where the Wild Things Are from the bedroom shelf last week, her seven-year-old son,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 18 October, 2009
Italian writer wins prestigious German literary prize
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Sunday, 18 October, 2009
American Literature: Words Without Borders
This year’s National Book Award nominations suggest that the American idea not only translates, it disregards national boundaries.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Off the Shelf: The Hunger of the Media Empire
Media executives’ desire for acquisitions has led to $200 billion in write-offs since 2000, write the authors of “The Curse of the Mogul.”... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Biblical sex row over explicit illustrated Book of Genesis
A sexually explicit illustrated Book of Genesis by controversial artist Robert Crumb which features Bible characters having intercourse has been condemned by religious groups.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 17 October, 2009
In Praise of Amy Tan and San Francisco's Literary Life
An event to honor the novelist Amy Tan captured San Francisco literary life in a nutshell, especially its sense of community and school spirit.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Found: Dorothy Parker poem reveals pain of rejection
Dorothy Parker had much to say about the romantic misfortunes of others but was curiously silent about her own doomed love affair.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Southern Discomfort
Padgett Powell’s fiction has grown more and more experimental — but no less darkly humorous and strangely true.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Music: Misterioso No More: Book Debunks Image of a Jazz Giant
Robin D. G. Kelley’s biography, “Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original,” just published by Free Press, is an omnibus of myth-busting.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Price War Over Books Worries Industry
Publishers, booksellers, agents and authors are fretting that a pricing battle between Wal-Mart and Amazon is taking prices for some titles so low that it could damage the industry.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
First-Person Masculine
In this essay collection, Michael Chabon reflects on the various states of maleness.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Parents Burning to Write It All Down
In recent months both the novelist Michael Chabon and his wife, Ayelet Waldman, have published nonfiction books that deal with what it means to be a family.... More...
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Half a century on, Asterix still holding out
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Saturday, 17 October, 2009
Style and Alchemy
A history of Strunk, White and their influential “little” book, “The Elements of Style.”... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Where Men Won Glory
This spirited and provocative rereading of Homer’s “Iliad” sees the Trojan war as a symbol of slaughter throughout the ages.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Lord Archer the winner
After a writing career spanning 33 years Jeffrey Archer has achieved a first.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 16 October, 2009
Fiction Chronicle
Novels by Brigid Pasulka, Elliot Krieger, Dai Sijie and Michelle Wildgen.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Coffee, Tea, Then Equality
A Times columnist’s thorough, smart and often wry account of American women’s strides and the hurdles they still face.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Patterns of Genocide
A magisterial and profoundly disturbing “natural history” of mass murder.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Monk’s Moods
This superbly textured, compassionate biography of Thelonious Monk charts his triumphs and his struggles, his roots and his artistic vision.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Green Life
A New York family tries to reduce its carbon footprint.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
The Terroirist
Jonathan Nossiter makes the case for wines that express “a place and its history.”... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Crime: Tales From the Cryptic
Mystery novels by Karen Maitland, Reginald Hill, Emily Arsenault and Patricia Cornwell.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Crossroads: The State of Families, Class and Culture
Americans step into and out of relationships faster than couples in Europe, Japan and Australia.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Encyclopaedia Britannica launches hunt through nation's attics
The 241-year-old reference authority is looking for the oldest complete set in private handsIt tells us that flatulence can be cured by blowing smoke through the anus, devotes 40 pages to the diseases of horses and informs the reader that... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 16 October, 2009
Asterix turns 50 as French villages squabble over inspiration for Gaul
Celebrations marred by French villages squabbling over inspiration.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 16 October, 2009
Book on Marc Rich Details His Iran Oil Deals
In a new biography, the former fugitive oil trader recounts working with Iran, Cuba and the apartheid regime of South Africa.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
William Hill unveils shortlist for Sports Book of Year awards
• Motorsport, racing, rugby, cricket and football on the list• Winner to be announced on 26 NovemberWilliam Hill has announced a six-strong shortlist for its Sports Book of the Year award. The award has been given every year since its... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 16 October, 2009
Savikas responds to TOC criticism
Tools of Change's Andrew Savikas has...... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Industry thinks ahead to cope with postal strikes
Booksellers are putting contingency plans in...... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Frankfurt traffic down 4% on day two
Visitor numbers were down again on the second...... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Rights dominate quiet fair
Rights trading at this year's Frankfurt Book...... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Closing down sale begins at Books Etc
Books Etc is likely to vanish from the...... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Untamed Heart
Assuming her maternal grandmother’s voice, the author of “The Glass Castle” recreates an adrenaline-charged existence on the rough-and-tumble Southwest frontier.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
White-Tails in Love
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas studies the local deer.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
New York State of Mind
Colin Harrison’s average-guy protagonist investigates the derailed life and untimely death of a striving New Yorker.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Heart of the Matter
Two decades of articles chronicling the ways in which atrocities expose the balance of power within societies.... More...
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Planeta Prize winner tough to find in English translation
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Angeles Caso wins Premio Planeta, the top Spanish book award
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Chinese comics strip sex to reach readers
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Friday, 16 October, 2009
Borderlands
A novel of drugs, desperation and illegal immigration, set in the New Mexico-Arizona-Mexico borderlands.... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Books of The Times: America’s War, British View
John Keegan, who is British, puts the Civil War into broad historical context amid history’s great conflicts, from the Napoleonic wars and World War I to Vietnam.... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Google takes on Amazon with book downloads
It already dominates the world of internet search and has plans to open the biggest digital library ever seen - but Google today took another step towards becoming the planet's most powerful information provider by announcing its plan to sell... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Madeleine Albright’s “Read My Pins” is an extensively illustrated memoir about her jewelry collection and its role in global politics.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin3. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls5. THE... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson3. COVET, by J. R. Ward4. HEAT LIGHTNING, by John Sandford5. TRUE DETECTIVES, by Jonathan Kellerman... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young3. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson5. THE ART OF RACING IN... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom2. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others3. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy4. WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, by Jon Krakauer5. THE MURDER... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. A TOUCH OF DEAD, by Charlaine Harris3. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett4. THE PROFESSIONAL, by Robert B. Parker5. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Random House dominates William Hill shortlist
Former Bookseller editor Nicholas Clee is...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Harper US strips with Dita
Burlesque fans will be able to get their...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
TRA to extend reading partners project after first-year success
The Reading Agency (TRA) is exploring how its...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
PA calls for collaboration
The UK Publishers Association is looking to...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Shadowmancer author Graham Taylor stops writing to care for sick daughter
Graham Taylor one of Britain's bestselling international authors is ending his career prematurely to look after his daughter who has developed an incurable disease.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Enid Blyton keeps in touch with her readers from beyond the grave
Sales boom, helped by late children's author's continuing responsiveness to fans' wishesWhile JK Rowling remains immune to her fans' calls for more Harry Potter, Enid Blyton is currently enjoying a small boom, thanks partly to remaining highly responsive to the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 15 October, 2009
SoA to recommend authors seek higher digital royalties
The Society of Authors' plans to increase its...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
"Improved" TOC to return to fair in 2010
The Frankfurt Book Fair has committed itself...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Book sales drop 4% at WHS, but profits increase
Book sales dropped 4% at W H Smith, despite a...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
TOC to return in 2010
The Frankfurt Book Fair has committed itself...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Mr Nice, and his début, to Frankfurt
Patrick Walsh of Conville and Walsh is doing...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Visitor numbers down 0.8% at subdued Frankfurt
Publishers have talked of a quiet and subdued...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Bloomsbury's Arabian Gruffalo
An Arabic translation of the bestselling...... More...
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: No slowing 'The Lost Symbol'
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Comic book releases (North America): Dark Wolverine discovers superheroics aren't easy
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Thursday, 15 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Ornery Glory of a Hollywood Iconoclast
This big, comprehensive, flesh-and-blood account of Robert Altman’s persona and exploits draws on the voices of the filmmaker’s collaborators, critics and camp followers.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Newly Released Books
New fiction from Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Caputo, Emily Arsenault, William Styron, Lou Manfredo and Joshua Gaylord.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Nan Robertson, Who Chronicled Discrimination Suit at The Times, Is Dead at 83
Ms. Robertson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times, was widely known for her book “The Girls in the Balcony.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Vaclav Klaus: How Czech president is fighting on to stop Europe in its tracks
Lisbon treaty has been eight years in making and is on brink of coming into force, but not if Klaus gets his way... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Libraries and Readers Wade Into Digital Lending
Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Romantic heroes: here's to you Mr Rochester
Mills and Boon readers have voted Charlotte Bronte's unloveable Mr Rochester the most romantic character in literature. Novelist Penny Vincenzi is also taken by his "savage complexity".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Frankfurt falls at Mandela's feet, US rights sold
"Virtually every major territory" was bidding...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Indies set to take advantage from subdued Frankfurt
Publishers have talked of a quiet and subdued...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Follett's new Century to begin next year
The first book in Ken Follett's Century...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Non-fiction dominates Frankfurt
Publishers heading to Frankfurt should...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
PA rights portal targets retailers
The Publishers Association’s Copyright Portal...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Penguin looks to business abroad
Penguin has given extra responsibility to its...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Polanski completing The Ghost from jail
Author Robert Harris, who co-wrote the film, says the director is working to complete the film in time for the Berlin film festival in FebruaryRoman Polanski is putting the finishing touches to The Ghost from his jail cell to ensure... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Literary Life
Bookfree libraries nursery rhymes Scottish greats revenge poetry Mark Sanderson surveys the literary world... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Penguin launches China list
Penguin today (14th October) announced the...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Roman Polanski 'still working on film from his prison cell' says Robert Harris
Roman Polanski is still working on his latest film The Ghost from inside a prison cell in Switzerland his friend and colleague Robert Harris said.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Thompson writes Nanny McPhee novel
Sarah Odedina at Bloomsbury has bought...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Google plans 'buy anywhere, read anywhere' offer
Google is poised to launch its "buy anywhere,...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
TOC: E-book sales predictions too optimistic
Forecasts that the UK's e-book market will...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
John Blake is the latest to join the IPG
The Independent Publishers Guild has...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
HC acquires David Mitchell memoir and novel
HarperCollins has acquired a memoir and novel...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
McSweeney's Next Incarnation: An Old-Fashioned Broadsheet
Next month McSweeney's will publish, of all things, a newspaper: McSweeney's 33 is to be in the form of a daily broadsheet -- a big, old-fashioned broadsheet.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
National Book Awards Finalists Are Announced
The National Book Foundation named the finalists for its National Book Awards on Wednesday.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky, Mystery Writer, Dies at 75
Mr. Kaminsky was a novelist who was widely known for his prodigious output, complex characters and rich evocations of time and place, including Hollywood in its Golden Age.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Average selling prices hit five-year high
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam Press)...... More...
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Beneath a Sheen of Glory, the Ugly Horror of War
Caroline Alexander’s book is not a new translation of “The Iliad” but an attempt at a fresh reading of it, one that focuses on what it has to say about the conduct and meaning of war.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Bidding war begins for Nelson Mandela's astonishing archive
• Papers to take Frankfurt book fair by storm• Collection affords glimpse into 'my mind and past'... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: No slowing 'The Lost Symbol'
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
Comic book releases (North America): Dark Wolverine discovers superheroics aren't easy
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Wednesday, 14 October, 2009
So You Think You Know Pasta
Through hundreds of descriptions of pasta styles, the Italian food historian Oretta Zanini De Vita’s “Encyclopedia of Pasta” places pasta in its social and historical context.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Write What You Know: Reflections of a Wayward Soul
Pete Dexter returns with an autobiographical novel, “Spooner,” a cradle-to-grave yarn about a well-meaning but wayward soul and his saintly stepfather.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Adam Haslett wows Frankfurt book fair | Arts diary
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Old-Timer, Still Telling Mountain Tales
Ralph Stanley, 82, is one of the last, and surely the purest, of the traditional country musicians and only just got around to writing his autobiography.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
New E-Book Company to Focus on Older Titles
Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors in electronic form.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Edinburgh book festival turns over a new leaf | Arts diary
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
When the Icing on the Cake Spells Disaster
Cake Wrecks, the popular blog and new book of the same name, celebrates the folly of professional confections gone horribly, horribly wrong.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Geller brings Mandela diaries to Frankfurt 'auction'
Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown is bringing the...... More...
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Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
No 'taboos' as Merkel opens the Frankfurt Book Fair
German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised that...... More...
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Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
ArtsBeat: Another ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ Sequel Lands in Britain
At Hitchcon 09 in London, fans paid tribute to Douglas Adams, the author of the original "Hitchhiker's" radio plays and books, and a new "Hitchhiker's" novel by the "Artemis Fowl" author Eoin Colfer was released.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
ASP hits five-year high
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam Press)...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
BA accuses Hodge of promoting "unfair competition"
The Booksellers Association has accused...... More...
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Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Exhibitors down for Frankfurt launch
The Frankfurt Book Fair officially opens for...... More...
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Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Malory Towers and Wishing Chair boost Blyton
A raft of new publishing has helped grow Enid...... More...
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Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
TOC: Piracy may boost sales, research suggests
A year-long study has revealed that...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Brontë's Mr Rochester named most romantic literary character
Charlotte Brontë's brooding Byronic hero Mr Rochester has been named the most romantic literary character in a poll.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
TOC Frankfurt: Sara Lloyd digital world is 'the present'
Publishers must establish good trading...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Raymond Federman, Avant-Garde Novelist and Beckett Scholar, Dies at 81
Mr. Federman’s work sought to straddle the boundary between fiction and reality.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 13 October, 2009
Books of The Times: They’ll Take Manhattan, Isle of Whimsy and Virtual Reality
This new novel pretentiously — and clumsily — tries to create a kind of virtual-reality game version of Manhattan.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Like Author, Like Heroine: Blazing a Trail Into the World of Elite Education
It required an almost 40-year labor, but Angela Jackson’s first novel, “Where I Must Go,” seems to have been born at the right time.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
ArtsBeat: Poe Finally Gets the Burials He Deserves
The ceremonies held on Sunday were to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Poe, the morbidly fixated man of letters, and drew 700 ticket holders as well as many other curious observers.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
ArtsBeat: Did Shakespeare Write This? Computer Says Yes
When it is not being used to catch cheating college students, a computer program used to detect plagiarism may have helped show that Shakespeare was an author of an unattributed play about Edward III.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Georgia May Jagger doesn't want to be famous
Georgia May Jagger the youngest daughter of Sir Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall may have recently won a lucrative advertising contract with a designer jeans firm but she insists that she is at heart a shrinking violet.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Keith Waterhouse's former lover Jean Leyland threatens to publish his love letters
Keith Waterhouse the author and playwright was lionised when he died last month at the age of 80 but a very different picture may be about to emerge if Jean Leyland his former girlfriend publishes a cache of love letters... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Edinburgh book festival gets new director
Edinburgh international book festival will have more themes, more performances, and better online presence, says new director Nick Barley... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Yellow-Lighted Bookshop to open another branch
Independent The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop is to...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
New director for Edinburgh book festival
Nick Barley has been appointed the new director of the Edinburgh international book festivalEdinburgh international book festival, one of Britain's most respected and venerable literary festivals, has appointed Nick Barley as its new director.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission uses Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Twitter feed from LCROSS quotes final thoughts of missile turned into whaleIn one of its less-reported actions last week, Nasa's LCROSS lunar mission last week gave Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy the extra-planetary exposure it has always deserved.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Freeman named Granta editor on permanent basis
John Freeman, former president of the...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Rily Publications to publish US authors
Welsh publishing house, Rily Publications, is...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Greig buys a double
Charlotte Greig at Picador has bought The...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Four more Flynn for Arrow
Random House imprint Arrow has acquired four...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Vermilion acquires celeb personal trainer title
Vermillion has bought the rights to a book by...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Frankfurt prepares for China protests
Frankfurt is putting extra security measures...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Hot deals for psychoanalyst
Clara Farmer at Chatto & Windus has bought...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Brits bigger book buyers than Americans
A report into consumer book buying has found...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Doyle buys painterly debut
Virago editorial director Ursula Doyle has...... More...
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Up to Her Neck in Pink Ribbons and Smiley Faces
Barbara Ehrenreich thinks the prevalence of bogus optimism has weakened America, and she is willing to shoot fish in barrels to make that case.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Arts, Briefly: Rare Chinese Books
Harvard College Library and the National Library of China have agreed to digitize one of the largest collections of rare Chinese books outside of China, according to The Associated Press.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Bill Hicok: "A History of Origami"
two women in three days cried on the green bench in the park where i found a dollar folded into a boat. i thought it was the crying bench and cried on the crying bench when it became available. <!--TAB . . .... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Julian Barnes: "Complicity"
When I was a hiccupping boy, my mother would fetch the back-door key, pull my collar away from my neck, and slip the cold metal down my back. At the time, I took this to be a normal medical—or maternal—procedure.... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Will Eaves: "From Weymouth"
What made you wake me so early And with a look of mischief say, A start this fine’s surely a sign The sea is calling us today? The train was blue, the water green: A tinted postcard sent in May.... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 12 October, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe given funeral 160 years after his mysterious death
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Monday, 12 October, 2009
Hitchhiker's guide returns to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent is back as Eoin Colfer publishes novel based on Douglas Adams's booksHundreds of people gathered at London's South Bank today dressed in differing hues of dressing gown and carrying towels to mark the resurrection of a fondly remembered... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
The Clinton Tapes by Taylor Branch
Taylor Branch's account of his secret conversations with the US president raises fascinating questions about how history is made, writes Gaby WoodOn 14 October 1993, nine months into Bill Clinton's presidency, roughly where we are now in Obama's, historian Taylor... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Off the Shelf: During Retirement, You Can’t Afford to Coast
The second phase of your investing life — retirement — is just as important as the years you spent working, Daniel R. Solin says in a new book.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Essay: Something From Nothing: My Madoff Fantasy
For one would-be author, some inconvenient facts could get in the way of an imaginary tale.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Google digital library plan opposed by Angela Merkel
German chancellor opposes the internet firm's attempt to put every book ever written online... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Angela Merkel attacks Google's plans to create a global online library
German chancellor expresses fears for copyright in run-up to the Frankfurt Book FairGerman chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday waded into the row over Google's plans to build a massive digital library. In her weekly video podcast, before the opening of the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew
From Blackadder to Burgess and Maclean, this history of MI5 is a scholarly and hugely entertaining account, says Robert McCrumAn authorised centenary history of MI5, the mysterious organisation whose existence was not even officially acknowledged until 1989, was bound to... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Lustrum by Robert Harris
The second volume of Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy finds a master storyteller on top form, says Dominic SandbrookThe second volume of Robert Harris's Cicero trilogy starts in familiar detective-thriller fashion. Two days before his hero's inauguration as consul of Rome,... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 11 October, 2009
Don't panic! Hitchhikers are back
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Sunday, 11 October, 2009
How Iago Explains the World
“Othello” speaks to one of the most salient confusions of our time: the conflict between transparency and secrecy.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
The Saturday Profile: A Novelist Whose Fiction Comes From Real Lives
A. S. Byatt’s latest novel, “The Children’s Book,” is full of characters and takes readers from 1895 until after World War I.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Penny Pincher
A combination of personal memoir, social history and political manifesto for extreme frugality.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Mott Haven Journal: Revisiting the Neighborhood He Escaped From
Allen Jones, who dealt drugs when he was a teenager in the Patterson Houses, was back in the Bronx to promote his new book, “The Rat That Got Away: A Bronx Memoir.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Capturing a Nation’s Thirst for Energy
The photographer Mitch Epstein routinely came under suspicion while taking pictures of dams and power plants for his new book, “American Power.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Author’s Personal Forecast: Not Always Sunny, but Pleasantly Skeptical
“Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America,” the new book by Barbara Ehrenreich, is based on her experience as a cancer patient.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Footsteps | Fall In Europe: Edith Wharton Always Had Paris
Wharton, the leading American female writer of the early 20th century, had a relationship with Paris that began early and ran deep.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
The Defence of the Realm by Christopher Andrew
An official history of MI5 can't bury the truth about the plot against Harold WilsonThe Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Charles Dickens by Michael Slater
Simon Callow welcomes an incomparable portrait of an awesome writerCharles Dickens: A Life Defined by Writing... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
The heart fails without warning
An exclusive short story by Hilary Mantel, winner of the Man Booker prize 2009September: when she began to lose weight at first, her sister had said, I don't mind; the less of her the better, she said. It was only... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky's late novel shows her at her shimmering bestThe Dogs and the Wolves... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Memoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem by Jah Wobble
Alan Warner is delighted by the memoirs of one of the post-punk era's true musical innovatorsMemoirs of a Geezer: Music, Life, Mayhem... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Dark Entries by Ian Rankin and Werther Dell'edera
Pithy dialogue, lots of action and energetic artwork fail to mask a slack plotDark Entries... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Serena by Ron Rash
Jay Parini is impressed by a bloodthirsty tale of greed and the ruthless pursuit of powerSerena... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Mal Peet on winning the Guardian children's fiction prize
Alison Flood talks to Mal Peet about his prizewinning novel, ExposureGrumpy at not making the cut for the Guardian children's fiction prize with his previous novel, Mal Peet let off a little steam by inserting a mischievous reference into his... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
'You'll be sorry'
Herta Müller on the legacy of the Ceausescu regimeFor me each journey to Romania is also a journey into another time, in which I never knew which events in my life were coincidence and which were staged. This is why... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Sarah Churchwell finds it hard to sympathise with Audrey Niffenegger's haunted protagonistsHer Fearful Symmetry... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 10 October, 2009
The Years of Magical Thinking
The Times’s Peter S. Goodman shows how economists and plutocrats fell dangerously in love with free markets.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Marine Dreams
These newly collected stories, written over a span of decades, concentrate on what happens to men damaged by battles they did not fight and by combat they never faced.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Dangerous Fancies
Set between 1895 and the Somme offensive, A. S. Byatt’s intricate novel tracks several British households joined by an ardent belief in art and social reform.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Evolution All Around
Richard Dawkins draws from an abundance of scientific sources to explain evolution and condemn its doubters.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Meet the Mayor
This biography finds the mayor profane, cranky and highly effective.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
The Girl in the Attic
In examining Anne Frank’s powerful global legacy, Francine Prose makes a persuasive argument for her literary genius.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Scoop
A history of Ramparts magazine, which in the 1960s revived muckraking, put showmanship back into journalism and exposed C.I.A. excesses.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Essay: Where the Wild Things Weren’t
Maurice Sendak’s classic may be one of those books that are appreciated more in theory, or by adults, than by actual kids.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Children’s Books: Once Upon a Broomstick
Three books by Tom Brenner, Emily Gravett and Alison McGhee rescue the holiday’s quiet magic from adult dreariness.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Young Adult: Constant Craving
A delightfully ruthless sequel to Suzanne Collins’s totalitarian-dystopic “Hunger Games.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Children’s Books: Children’s Bookshelf
More children’s books reviewed.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Amazon admits: international Kindle users will pay more
• International buyers to be charged 40% more per book• Admission contrasts with company's earlier commentsAmazon has admitted that international users of its Kindle book reader will be paying significantly more to buy books than their American counterparts.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Their Corner of the War
David Finkel’s harrowing chronicle of modern combat is based on the eight months he spent with an Army battalion in Iraq.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Paulo Coelho’s novel “The Alchemist” has sold more than 65 million copies since it was published in Brazil in 1988.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Simon's Cat: the book
When Simon Tolfield made a short flash animation starring a wily feline who knows how to get what he wants, he had no idea it would turn into an internet phenomenon. As Simon's Cat makes it between hard covers, we... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Booksellers hit back at plans for libraries to sell books
Culture minister Margaret Hodge's suggestion that libraries should link up with internet bookseller Amazon greeted with outrageThe culture minister Margaret Hodge's suggestion that libraries should start selling books as well as lending them has been greeted with outrage by embattled... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Waterstone's denies staff access to The Bookseller's website
Waterstone's has removed access to the website of industry journal The Bookseller in the wake of a negative story on the chain's distribution systemWaterstone's has prevented its staff from accessing book trade magazine The Bookseller's website after it ran a... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Google founder hits out at critics of its book plan
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at...... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Lady Colin Campbell offers lesson in social skills
Lady Colin Campbell the socialite and author who appeared on Ladette to Lady is to write a book promoting the need for good manners.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Camilla Rutherford's latest big production
Mandrake congratulates Camilla Rutherford. The 33yearold Gosford Park actress has given birth to an 8 lbs 4 oz baby girl named Nancy.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Wirral campaigners demand inquiry publication
Library campaigners have expressed strong...... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Penguin wins new Almond titles in six-figure deal
Penguin has won the auction for two new...... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Michael Palin on his diaries; our critics discuss a week of literary prizes
Today's podcast comes at the end of a big week in literature: Hilary Mantel's Booker-win on Tuesday was followed by the announcement of the Forward prizes for poetry on Wednesday and the crowning of the 2009 Nobel laureate on Thursday.... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Electronic Book Tokens delayed until 2010
The Booksellers Association has postponed the...... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Google's Sergey Brin lashes out at critics of $125m book deal
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics who derailed the company's $125m deal with American publishers to give it the right to digitise millions of books.The proposal, which promised to create a huge library of material available through... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Charlotte S. Turgeon, Who Popularized French Cuisine, Is Dead at 97
Ms. Turgeon wrote cookbooks that helped popularize French cuisine in the United States, and she did it before her friend Julia Child.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Record year for female Nobel laureates
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck2. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max3. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin4. MY LIFE IN FRANCE, by Julia Child... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. COVET, by J. R. Ward3. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson4. BORN OF NIGHT, by Sherrilyn Kenyon5. THE RENEGADE HUNTER, by Lynsay Sands... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young3. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger4. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom2. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others3. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy4. THE TIME OF MY LIFE, by Patrick Swayze and... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 9 October, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. AN ECHO IN THE BONE, by Diana Gabaldon3. ROUGH COUNTRY, by John Sandford4. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Books of The Times: The Kingdom and the Power, All Self-Made
Joyce Purnick gives us the basics of Bloomberg the mogul and Bloomberg the mayor in a straightforward, biographical chronicle.... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Books: A Prize That Shies From Predictability
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature isn’t always a bolt-out-of-the-blue surprise, a writer whose work is known only to an elite fraction of American readers. It only seems that way.... More...
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
German writer wins Nobel literature prize
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Friday, 9 October, 2009
Why men write short email and women write emotional messages
Women tend to write long email messages that express support and are more personal and emotive while men are to the point with precise orders according to a new book.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Mal Peet wins Guardian children's fiction prize
A version of Othello which casts the Moor of Venice as a South American football star wins Mal Peet the 2009 Guardian children's fiction prizeA modern retelling of Othello, in which the Moor of Venice and his wife Desdemona are... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe gets proper funeral - 160 years on
• City of Baltimore to host two cermonies with 700 guests• Ceremony part of series of events marking anniversaryBy the standards of any age, it was a miserable way to go. Edgar Allan Poe, dark romantic writer and poet credited... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Publishers prepared for scaled-back Frankfurt
The UK editorial presence at the Frankfurt...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Trade divided over Waterstone’s hub
Publishers and agents are divided over the...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
‘Robust' Faber moves back into profit
Faber has recorded a pretax profit of £1.08m...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Internet lending could help libraries survive
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
The Highway Code: 1930
'If the road suddenly forks to the left or the right, it does not mean that the road has disappeared. You have just come to a corner'PART ONE... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Nobel prize for literature: Herta Muller 'stunned' at winning
Herta Muller the Romanianborn author said she was 'stunned' after she was awarded the 2009 Nobel literature prize.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Profile: Herta Muller winner 2009 Nobel prize for literature
Herta Muller the winner of the 2009 Nobel literature prize used her upbringing under Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime in Romania as her main source of inspiration.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Nobel prize for literature: recent winners
Herta Muller has won the 2009 Nobel literature prize. Here is a list of recent winners.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
L, B to expand Atom imprint
Little Brown's young adult imprint Atom is to...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Almond moves into adult fiction
An auction is being held for two books by...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Serpent's Tail and Granta to reissue Nobel winner
Serpent's Tail is to reissue Herta Müller's...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
New roles for Helen Fraser
Penguin m.d. Helen Fraser is to become chief...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Herta Müller Wins Nobel Prize in Literature
The Romanian-born German writer has written widely about dictatorship in her native country and life as an exile.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Amazon tie-up considered in library service revamp
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Nobel prize for literature: German writer Herta Muller wins 2009 award
German novelist poet and essayist receives 2009 award for literature.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Title Deed: How the book got its name
Gary Dexter explains the origins of Tom Stoppard's Dogg's Hamlet... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Herta Mueller wins 2009 Nobel literature prize
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Literary Life
Mark Sanderson reports on books and murder nudity and parties literary prescience and more... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Herta Müller takes Nobel prize for literature
The 2009 Nobel prize has been awarded to Herta Müller, for depicting the 'landscape of the dispossessed' with 'the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose'Romanian-born German novelist, essayist and poet Herta Müller has been named winner of the... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
What's your favourite poem?
Let's celebrate National Poetry Day by confessing to our fondest poetical loves. But here's the tricky part – just one poem eachThe discussions on Poem of the week often veer towards the what-is-a-poem question. Of course the answer changes, to... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Herta Müller awarded Nobel Prize
Romanian-born German writer Herta Müller has...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Hodge delays DCMS Library Review
Culture minister Margaret Hodge has said that...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
TS Eliot named the nation's favourite poet
TS Eliot is given the title of 'nation's favourite poet' by an online poll hosted by the BBC to mark National Poetry DayThe rousing strains of Rudyard Kipling's "If" might have catapulted him to a landslide victory in the vote... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Children's sector beats market
The children's book market will benefit from...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Google Settlement to be revised by 9th November
Judge Denny Chin has called for a new Google...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Poetry workshop: heroes and heroines
Glyn Maxwell is impressed by the praise poems submitted for his National Poetry Day-themed workshopThese are the seven most praiseworthy praise poems: they celebrate prime minister Balfour, J Robert Oppenheimer, a henchman, a baby, green leaves, depression, and someone called... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 8 October, 2009
UK publishers assured over territoriality following Kindle launch
Publishers have been assured by Amazon.com...... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
ArtsBeat: Harvard Gets Updike Archives
John Updike, a member of Harvard’s Class of 1954, retained a Harvard library card after graduating and continued to visit its campus to research his writing.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Currents | Books: Rising Right Before Your Eyes
“Wendy Evans Joseph Pop Up Architecture” may be one of the very few architectural monographs in the form of a pop-up book.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Book Sales Are Down, Despite Push
After strong starts and huge marketing campaigns, some of the biggest books of the fall season are losing a little steam.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Grandmother With a Heap of Gumption
Jeannette Walls returns to the family she chronicled in her memoir, “The Glass Castle,” in this “true-life novel” about her grandmother.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
New Amazon Kindle to Download Books Beyond U.S.
The updated e-book reader will wirelessly download books in the United States and more than 100 other countries.... More...
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Thursday, 8 October, 2009
Royal Mail loses Amazon contract as postal strikes loom
Threat to deliveries forces major client to pull plug on £25m dealRoyal Mail has lost a crucial contract with its second largest customer, the online retailer Amazon, as a wave of strikes threaten parcel deliveries in the busy pre-Christmas sales... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Nursery rhymes could die out survey suggests
Traditional rhymes becoming unpopular with parents.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
In E-Books, It’s an Army vs. Google
A broad array of authors, academics, librarians and public interest groups are fighting Google’s plan to create a huge digital library and bookstore.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Don Paterson wins the Forward poetry prize with 'masterful' collection
Scottish poet Don Paterson has triumphed over one of the strongest poetry shortlists in years to take the Forward prize for best collection with RainSixteen years after he debuted on the poetry scene with the acclaimed collection Nil Nil, Don... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Who will win the Nobel prize for literature?
Roth, Murakami, Doctorow: we've placed our bets on the Nobel prize for literature, but who do you think will – or should – win tomorrow?The Nobel prize for literature is announced tomorrow lunchtime so it's time for the usual annual... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Literary Nobel is blowin’ in the wind
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel sees off Dan Brown
Hilary Mantel's Booker-winner Wolf Hall has pushed Dan Brown's new novel into second place on Amazon's sales chartsThomas Cromwell has seen off Robert Langdon after Hilary Mantel's Booker prize win on Tuesday night sent her novel Wolf Hall soaring ahead... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Filming of García Márquez novel delayed by anti-prostitution group
Lawsuit filed claiming that film of Memories of My Melancholy Whores would promote paedophiliaFilming of the latest novel by Gabriel García Márquez has been delayed by an anti-prostitution group that claims the movie would promote child prostitution.Memories of My Melancholy... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Librarians fight back against cuts with 'good library guidelines'
New guidelines say that a good library should be accessible, with opening hours which suit local needs, and with regularly refreshed print, audio-visual and online resourcesWith the prospect of closure threatening up to a third of the UK's libraries, a... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Novel About Henry VIII Wins Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel won the 41st annual Man Booker Prize on Tuesday night for “Wolf Hall,” a historical novel about Henry VIII’s court.... More...
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Josef Burg, Who Wrote About Jewish Life, Dies at 97
Mr. Burg, one of the last Yiddish authors in Eastern Europe, preserved vestiges of a once-vibrant culture in fictional reflections on Jewish life.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Amazon launches Kindle book reader worldwide
• Popular gizmo goes on sale internationally on October 19• Orders through US store will cost up to £200British book fanatics will soon be able to get their hands on Amazon's popular Kindle electronic book reader, after the company unveiled... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Writing Booker history
Watch this year's Man Booker prizewinner, Hilary Mantel, talk about her triumphant novel, Wolf Hall, how she came to admire her scheming hero Thomas Cromwell, and why she writes historical fictionSarah CrownAndy Gallagher... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Back When Ramparts Did the Storming
Peter Richardson, in his appealing if choppy new book, looks back at a magazine that was gleefully incendiary.... More...
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Tale of Henry's favourite is a winner with the bookies – and the Booker
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Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker 'confidence oozes off each page'
So after all the speculation about whether Hilary Mantel would actually land the Man Booker prize on the night we now know. She has done it and for that we should raise a glass.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Hilary Mantel wins Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall
Denselyplotted tale of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII chosen 2009 winner.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Ground War: The Iraq Surge Grunts Knew
The Iraq war in Mr. Finkel’s heart-stopping new book is something immediate and visceral.... More...
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Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Archie’s Destiny, as Shaped by Robert Frost
A new twist in Archie’s romantic triangle has thrust this nearly 70-year-old character into the media spotlight.... More...
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Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Vincent Van Gogh's letters
Van Gogh's letters give the lie to the idea that the painter was a reckless and unreflective genius.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Stieg Larsson sees off celebrity biographies on Super Thursday
Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest is beaten only by Dan Brown after Super Thursday's 800 hardbacks hit the shelvesA deluge of 800 new hardbacks hit bookshops last Thursday but it was a translated crime novel by the... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
On the trail of the great unwrecked
Charles Moore reviews Unwrecked England a tribute to the enduring pleasures of villages cathedrals and abbeys.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Kate Duffy, Book Editor, Is Dead at 56
Ms. Duffy was one of the foremost editors of romance novels in the United States, and helped usher into print a new kind of romance novel featuring strong, capable women.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Booker Prize: the shortlist
Here are the six books shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction:... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Booker Prize: Hilary Mantel favourite to win
Hilary Mantel is the favourite to walk away with the Man Booker Prize for Fiction today for her novel about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 6 October, 2009
Digital Domain: Will Books Be Napsterized?
As the hardware for electronic books moves closer to the mainstream, publishers wonder whether their industry can be spared the potential problems of piracy.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Essay: Advantage Google
Nothing in the history of copyright permits the treatment of “orphan” works spelled out in the proposed settlement between Google and the Authors Guild.... More...
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Monday, 5 October, 2009
Perpetual Revelations
Karen Armstrong, a former nun, wants to rescue the idea of the Deity from its cultured despisers and its more literal-minded adherents alike.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Winnie the Pooh: Return to the Hundred Acre Wood review
Winnie the Pooh in its initial guise made the acidtongued Dorothy Parker in her review 'thwow up'.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Crime: Maternal Instinct
Mystery novels by Sophie Hannah, Nancy Mauro, Robert B. Parker and Dick and Felix Francis.... More...
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Monday, 5 October, 2009
Who will win the Booker Prize?
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Monday, 5 October, 2009
Travel book reviews: Blue Skies and Black Olives and The Lore of Scotland
The latest travel books reviewed. This week: a father and son's escape to the Aegean and a history of Scottish folklore.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
The Same Pooh Bear, but an Otter Has Arrived
“Return to the Hundred Acre Wood” is the first authorized sequel to the A. A. Milne classic Winnie-the-Pooh books in more than 80 years.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Books of The Times: Cromwell Unshadowed, Razor Sharp
Hilary Mantel has written an arch, elegant, richly detailed biographical novel centered on Thomas Cromwell.... More...
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Monday, 5 October, 2009
Art: All the Books You’ll Never Catch on a Kindle
The New York Art Book Fair, with thousands of smart, weird, engrossing and beautiful books, fills three floors of P.S. 1 with plenty of breathing room.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Bookshops 'will not stock Jordan's latest book'
Book chains have suggested they will not stock Katie Price's latest autobiography because it is her fourth in five years according to reports.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
First new WinniethePooh book in 80 years goes on sale
The first new WinniethePooh book in more than 80 years has hit the shops.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 5 October, 2009
John Ashbery: "Lost Sonnet"
They grow up too fast these days. Unassumingness becomes unwieldy, the woods a place to walk from briskly. You say your cunning comportment is artless? Well then so am I for containing you, champ. Your tracks are alive with new... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Kay Ryan: "The Paw of a Cat"
The first trickle of water down a dry ditch stretches like the paw of a cat, slightly tucked at the front, unambitious about auguring wet. It may sink later but it hasn’t yet . . .... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Tessa Hadley: "The Godchildren"
The three heirs, in three separate taxis, converged on 33 Everdene Walk on a fine afternoon in late May. They were in their early fifties, and had not met since they were sixteen or seventeen. Amanda, who had been officious... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Vijay Seshadri: ZZDOUBLESTRAIGHTQUOTEZZThought ProblemZZDOUBLESTRAIGHTQUOTEZZ
How strange would it be if you met yourself on the street? How strange if you liked yourself, took yourself in your arms, married your own self, propagated by techniques known only to you, and then populated the world? Replicas... More...
From: Fiction & Poetry
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Tony Blair's chief of staff to write about Machiavelli
In a move which suggests that he has an unexpected capacity for selfparody Jonathan Powell the former chief of staff to Tony Blair tells me that he is putting the finishing touches to a modern version of Machiavelli's The Prince.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 4 October, 2009
Sarah E. Wright, Novelist of Black Experience in the Depression, Dies at 80
Ms. Wright’s first and only published novel, “This Child’s Gonna Live,” was among the first to explore the black experience from a woman’s perspective.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 4 October, 2009
Off the Shelf: Recession, You Look Familiar
Two professors make the case that similar events almost always lead to recessions, including the most recent one.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 4 October, 2009
Welcome to positive living
The 2009 Conservative party conference attracted not only the usual lobbyists, toffs and captains of industry but lesbians, gays and environmentalists too. Have David Cameron's Tories really changed their tune?This is what everyone tells me about this year's Conservative party... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 4 October, 2009
Proving his literary worth: The return of the adventurer
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Sunday, 4 October, 2009
Frank Johnson: why being clasped by Maria Callas was my finest hour
Renowned as a peerless parliamentary sketchwriter the Telegraph's Frank Johnson also had a passion for opera. In an extract from a new collection edited by his widow he recalls the thrill of performing at Covent Garden aged 14 with the... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Why Winnie the Pooh turns me into Eeyore
The 'feisty' Lottie the Otter can't be any duller than AA Milne's other characters argues Jemima Lewis.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Louis de Bernieres: 'These are my stories of a vanished England'
The countryside is dying part of the reason is that too many of the people living there have the attitudes of 'townies' the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin tells Roya Nikkhah... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Confessions of Booker Prize judge Michael Prodger
Michael Prodger has learned from his time on the judging panel that there is nothing more dispiriting than a mediocre literary novel.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Why Is She Smiling?
In Richard Powers’s latest novel, characters obsess over a woman ostensibly afflicted with hyperthymia — an excess of happiness.... More...
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Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World by Joscelyn Godwin
An enchanting compendium of curiositiesAthanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World by Joscelyn Godwin 304pp, Thames & Hudson, £40Athanasius Kircher (1602-80), having been neglected for centuries, has become something of a fashionable figure in recent times. Joscelyn Godwin, the author of... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams | Book review
Polly Toynbee enjoys the clear-eyed political analysis and honesty of a might-have-beenClimbing the Bookshelves: The Autobiographyby Shirley Williams 432pp, Virago, £20Few politicians are loved or even liked, and even fewer of those are women, who are subjected to quite disproportionate venom.... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
Does the Millennium trilogy end as well as it begins? Kate Mosse finds outA couple of years ago I was in a supermarket in Carcassonne, looking for a book to read on holiday. I noticed that something called Millennium seemed to... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou
Mathematics has never been so excitingLogicomixby Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H Papadimitriou, art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna 347pp, Bloomsbury, £16.99Bertrand Russell's Principia Mathematica (which he co-wrote with Alfred North Whitehead) is probably the most impenetrable book ever written by... More...
From: Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
Saturday, 3 October, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others2. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy3. HIGH ON ARRIVAL, by Mackenzie Phillips with Hilary Liftin4. AMERICAN ON PURPOSE, by Craig Ferguson5. THE... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Talk to the Newsroom: Book Review Editor Sam Tanenhaus
Sam Tanenhaus has been editor of the Book Review since April 2004.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
The Book Thief
A story of fraud provides an opportunity to recall instances of book-driven madness through the ages.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
You and Your Friend’s Friend’s Friends
Two scholars argue that our actions and emotions are affected not only by those close to us, but by people we may not even know.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Glory Days
Edmund White recalls gay life in New York in the 1960s and ’70s, when friends and sheer perseverance got him through his years of desire, poverty and thwarted ambition.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Kid Stuff
The authors urge parents to ignore common assumptions about children in favor of the latest social science, much of it counterintuitive.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Katherine Jenkins refuses to sing for Gordon Brown
Katherine Jenkins rejected approaches by Labour about her singing at its party conference.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 2 October, 2009
Nonfiction Chronicle
Books by Paul Collins, Kaylie Jones, Wilborn Hampton and Leonard Michaels.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Fantasy Baseball
Two books, one for Red Sox fans and one for followers of the Yankees, on crucial games in the 1975 and 1956 World Series.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
The King James Version
LeBron James describes growing up and playing basketball with his friends.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
The Scotsman
The Scottish-born comedian tells his story without jokes getting in the way.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Missile Defense
The cold war era is mainly important for the nuclear war that never happened. Neil Sheehan succesfully dramatizes this nonevent through the story of Gen. Bernard Schriever, a crucial figure behind the creation of America’s ICBM force.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 2 October, 2009
Frank Johnson: a fearless observer of our times
Frank Johnson was master of the parliamentary sketch. His work collected by his widow Virginia Fraser enriched The Daily Telegraph for more than 30 years and reads as freshly today as it when he wrote it.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 2 October, 2009
Animal Magnetism
These tales center on the interaction of celebrities and animals.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Top 10 Facts About a Sidekick
Paul Shaffer’s memoir includes brushes with Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Fade to Black
Five first-person tales of human emotion in the waning hours of light.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
The darkhorse bestseller of Christmas
A compendium of curiosities from an obscure Victorian publication makes the perfect Christmas gift.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Richard Dawkins’s “Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution” enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 5, while Karen Armstrong’s “Case for God” lands at No. 10.... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
10 of the best: Secondhand bookshops
From Somerset to Northumberland, the best places to browse for books in BritainAnna Tims... More...
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Friday, 2 October, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin3. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max4. MY LIFE IN FRANCE, by Julia Child... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. TEMPT ME AT TWILIGHT, by Lisa Kleypas3. SCARPETTA, by Patricia Cornwell4. WICKED ALL DAY, by Liz Carlyle5. DIVINE JUSTICE, by David Baldacci... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan2. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger3. THE SHACK, by William P. Young4. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. AN ECHO IN THE BONE, by Diana Gabaldon3. THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett5. HOTHOUSE ORCHID, by Stuart Woods... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Capital Secrets
The scariest thing about “The Lost Symbol” is that Dan Brown, who took on the Vatican in his previous novels, seems so desperate to ingratiate himself to the ancient sect at the center of this one: the Masons.... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Pick of the Paperbacks
Why is everyone so aggressive behind the wheel? And who exactly was Cleopatra? Find out the answers to these and many more questions as our reviewers take on the latest batch of paperbacks including Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt and Cleopatra... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Science Fiction roundup: review
Peter Ingham assesses a clutch of apocalyptic science fiction novels including The Sign by Raymond Khoury in which a sphere of light appears over the Antarctic and Tide of Souls by Simon Bestwick which contains flesheating zombies with greenglowing eyes... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Keynes: the Return of the Master by Robert Skidelsky: review
Edmund Conway examines Robert Skidelsky's book on the economist John Maynard Keynes... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
The People's Train by Thomas Keneally: review
This fictionalised account of a young communist from Thomas Keneally the author of Schindler's Ark is a formidable achievement says Edward McGown... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Diary: the week's literary gossip
Our literary insider Joe Allston on Stieg Larsson's original titles Sarah Palin's memoir and hold your horses a novel by Tara PalmerTomkinson... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
My Book Club by Genevieve Fox
Don't take your book club on holiday with you there'll be fighting over Albert Camus and friendships lost before you know it says Genevieve Fox... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe: review
Christopher Silvester examines a portrait of Marilyn Monroe that sheds new light on her fractured family relationships... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
The Dogs and the Wolves by Irène Némirovksy: review
Lorna Bradbury enjoys a sharply observed depiction of a doomed love affair The Dogs and the Wolves by Irène Némirovsky... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Carol Ann Duffy: Interview
Interview with the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy and a new poem... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Princeton students dislike Amazon Kindle
Amazon's Kindle ebook reader designed to cutdown on the number of text books and files students need to carry around has failed to win over scholars at Princeton University... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Title Deed: How the Book got its Name
Gary Dexter explains the story behind Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Lustrum by Robert Harris: review
Modern political shenanigans are at work in ancient Rome in Robert Harris Lustrum finds Harry Mount... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
My Paper Chase by Harold Evans
Brian MacArthur enjoys Harold Evans's My Paper Chase the memoirs of a newspaperman who decreed that even hard news should be delivered with fizz... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham: review
Richard Wrangham's Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human is no halfbaked theory of evolution finds Simon Ings... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
A Gambling Man: Charles II and the Restoration by Jenny Uglow: review
Jenny Uglow's A Gambling Man shows that if Charles II's public face was that of the 'merry monarch' his private face was anything but says Malcolm Gaskill... More...
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Thursday, 1 October, 2009
