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Wednesday, 30 September, 2009

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol and Washington DC

Washington DC hopes to reap the benefits of its starring role in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol says Rachel Ray in Washington.... More...

Tuesday, 29 September, 2009

Harry Potter author JK Rowling joins Twitter

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has joined Twitter after discovering that people were impersonating her on the social media site.... More...

Tuesday, 29 September, 2009

Duchess of York's children's books to be turned into films

The Duchess of York has disclosed that she has signed a contract with a major US company that will turn her most recent children's books into Hollywood films.... More...

Tuesday, 29 September, 2009

Borders UK to close struggling Books Etc stores

Tuesday, 29 September, 2009

'End of the librarian' as staff sacked for automatic check out machines

Leicestershire County Council's decision to replace library staff with selfservice machines to cut costs has been criticised.... More...

Monday, 28 September, 2009

Dawn French autobiography named "best audiobook of the year"

Monday, 28 September, 2009

Charles Wright: "Heaven’s Eel"

A slight wrinkle on the pond. Small wind. A small wind and the rumpled clouds’ reflection. Ho hum . . . What’s needed is something under the pond’s skin, Something we can’t see that controls all the things that we... More...

Monday, 28 September, 2009

George Saunders: "Victory Lap"

Three days shy of her fifteenth birthday, Alison Pope paused at the top of the stairs. Say the staircase was marble. Say she descended and all heads turned. Where was {special one}? Approaching now, bowing slightly, he exclaimed, How can... More...

Monday, 28 September, 2009

Lia Purpura: "First Leaf"

That yellow was a falling off, a fall for once I saw coming— it could in its stillness still be turned from, it was not yet ferocious, its hold drew me, was a shiny switchplate in the otherwise dark, rash,... More...

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Monday, 28 September, 2009

Short story by Jeanette Winterson

In December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to try to reach a global deal to tackle climate change. To support the launch of the 10:10 campaign to reduce carbon emissions, the Review asked some of our greatest artists, authors... More...

Saturday, 26 September, 2009

The Lost Symbol and The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown: 50 factual errors

The Lost Symbol author says that his books while fictional are grounded in fact. We look at 50 of his claims.... More...

Friday, 25 September, 2009

Win tickets to celebrate the release of the 6th instalment of the 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' series

Friday, 25 September, 2009

The 25 most influential books in world literature

These are the choices of 25 writers as to what they consider to be the books that have most shaped world literature over the last 25 years:... More...

Friday, 25 September, 2009

One Hundred Years of Solitude tops world literature poll

One Hundred Years of Solitude 'shaped world literature'.... More...

Friday, 25 September, 2009

Sarah Thornton an apology

Telegraph apologises to author Sarah Thornton.... More...

Thursday, 24 September, 2009

Title Deed: How the Book got its Name

Gary Dexter explains the genesis of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley... More...

Thursday, 24 September, 2009

Literary Life

Bin Laden's book choices new quotations the Man Booker sales and the unstoppable James Patterson: Mark Sanderson surveys the Literary Life... More...

Thursday, 24 September, 2009

Win Cool-ER eBook Reader with Mills & Boon

Wednesday, 23 September, 2009

David Mason: "Fathers and Sons"

Some things, they say, one should not write about. I tried to help my father comprehend the toilet, how one needs to undo one’s belt, to slide one’s trousers down and sit, but he stubbornly stood and would not bend... More...

Monday, 21 September, 2009

Marisa Silver: "Temporary"

Vivian and Shelly lived in downtown Los Angeles, in an industrial space that belonged, nominally, to a ribbon factory, whose warehouse was attached. Shelly had discovered it one night when the band she belonged to then had played at an... More...

Monday, 21 September, 2009

Wendell Berry: "A Speech to the Garden Club of America"

With thanks to Wes Jackson and in memory of Sir Albert Howard and Stan Rowe.) Thank you. I’m glad to know we’re friends, of course; There are so many outcomes that are worse. But I must add I’m sorry for... More...