No Country for Old Typewriters: A Well-Used One Heads to Auction
After five million or so words, Cormac McCarthy bids farewell to his portable Olivetti.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Present-Day Soapbox for Voices of the Past (With a Web Site)
Lewis H. Lapham, the former editor of Harper’s magazine, takes on a new market and business model with his eponymous journal.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Bewitched by Bach, Bewildered by His Masterpiece
Eric Siblin combines high and low musical forms, art and political histories and matters of arcane musicology into a single inquisitive volume.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Museums: For Poe, This Has Been the Year to Die For
Celebrations have been widespread and plentiful in the bicentennial of his birth, including two exhibits in Richmond, Va., where Poe spent nearly a third of his life.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Katie Price 'drinks too much and sleeps with too many people', says Fay Weldon
Katie Price "drinks too much and sleeps with too many people and talks about it too much for common decency", according to feminist writer Fay Weldon.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Bookseller's debut novel wins John Llewellyn Rhys prize
Evie Wyld's After the Fire, a Still Small Voice beats Aravind Adiga and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to £5,000 prizeEvie Wyld, a bookseller from south London, has won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys prize with a debut novel set in Vietnam... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Shoppers flock to online checkouts like never before
• Internet retailers ready for a bumper Christmas• Books and iPods among the most popular buysOnline retailers are expecting bumper internet sales this Christmas with more shoppers than ever logging on to buy iPods and the latest Dan Brown novel.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Bad sex award goes to Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones
Bad sex judges pay tribute to 'part-genius' of winning novel and hope winner 'takes it in good humour'The American winner of the Prix Goncourt, Jonathan Littell, has added another feather to his cap. His novel, The Kindly Ones, was tonight... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Bad Sex for Jonathan Littell
Jonathan Littell has beaten stiff competition...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Bookseller wins John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
A début author who works in the Review indie...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Thirty-six head office staff go at Borders
The administrators of Borders have made 36...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Geoffrey Moorhouse Funeral
The funeral of travel writer Geoffrey...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
In full: Wirral library report
The Wirral libraries inquiry report,...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Ringing the changes: phone box becomes mini-library
Village that was set to lose its traditional red phone box and library service comes up with plan to save bothWhen the mobile library stopped visiting, it was a blow for the villagers of Westbury-sub-Mendip. And when they found out... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Dennis launches App
Dennis Publishing has launched its first...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Publishers absorb implications of Borders loss
Hachette UK's deputy chief executive Peter...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Chris Schuler: 'The Queen's Necklace' - a rediscovered classic
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Fay Weldon says feminism has turned women into wage-slaves
Author and pioneer of the feminist movement claims that sexual equality has its drawbacks.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Jane Austen 'died of tuberculosis not hormonal disorder'
Jane Austen probably died of tuberculosis after drinking unpasteurised milk rather than falling victim to a rare hormonal disorder as is generally assumed, research shows.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
'Twitter' declared top word of 2009
Global Language Monitor's vast survey of print and social media places Twitter ahead of Obama and H1N1 as most used wordAs world leaders prepare for the climate-change summit in Copenhagen and stock markets around the world get the Dubai shakes,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Breaking news: Wirral library report
The Wirral libraries inquiry report has found...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Bookseller of Peckham beats Aravind Adiga to novel award
A bookseller from Peckham has beaten recent winners of the Man Booker and Orange prizes to a highly regarded literary award for young authors.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Administrators begin 'closing down' sales at Borders UK
Borders UK launched a closing down sale this...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Quercus pays back funding amid year of strong growth
Quercus has fully repaid the the short-term...... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Books of The Times: The Delicate Arithmetic of Love and Independence
Alice Munro’s latest collection features a high proportion of extreme situations and deeply troubled individuals.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 30 November, 2009
Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Mexican author Pacheco receives top Spanish literary prize
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
Top 100 book lists: ideas for reading and gift-giving
The New York Times Book Review is the latest source to publish a Top 100 book list, following on the heels of Amazon.com, The Times (UK), The Telegraph, and many others. Picks for fiction and nonfiction, plus gift books,... More...
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Monday, 30 November, 2009
French university brings manuscripts of Stendhal into the 21st century
Website uses cutting-edge technology to place author's barely legible manuscripts next to scrupulous modern-day transcriptsHe was born before the French revolution, lived through the Napoleonic wars and died having spent his life documenting the anxieties and aspirations of a peculiarly... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 29 November, 2009
Bookshelf | Looking at the City: 63 Windows and What They Show
Drawings of what 63 residents see from their windows, a history of women’s working conditions, and photographs from the Great Depression.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 28 November, 2009
Significant (Little) Moments Pulled From Obscurity
Colum McCann, whose novel, “Let the Great World Spin,” won the National Book Award for fiction last week, finds inspiration by burrowing into lives unlike his own.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Saturday, 28 November, 2009
I'm a celebrity memoir...get me out of here!
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Saturday, 28 November, 2009
Improv Tonight
The story of Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe, told through interviews with its acclaimed alumni.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Google’s Earth
How the company shot to success, and why executives across industries are striking defensive poses.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Alice Munro’s Object Lessons
Alice Munro’s new stories take on pulp fiction’s sensational subjects, and episodes of murder, suicide and adultery turn out to have far-reaching thematic reverberations.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Couple’s Retreat
Jane Gardam revisits the complex marriage explored in her novel “Old Filth.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
You Be the Judge
A professor of government reviews what he has taught in one of the most popular courses at Harvard.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
The Story of a Landing
William Langewiesche argues that the plane itself deserves high credit for “the miracle on the Hudson.”... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Southern Deviations
The reigning master of the legal thriller turns to the hallowed literary turf of the Mississippi Delta.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
All-female shortlist for BBC National Short Story award
Naomi Alderman, Kate Clanchy, Sara Maitland, Jane Rogers and Lionel Shriver contend for £15,000 prizeFrom the story of a family clash over cash by Lionel Shriver to Naomi Alderman's tale of a Jewish man who discovers an unforeseen devotion to... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Letter From Istanbul: Mr. Pamuk’s Neighborhood
In fashionable Nisantasi, the kind of people featured in Orhan Pamuk’s new novel don’t always like the attention.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Battling the Skeptics
Michael Specter takes on those he sees as denying science, from promoters of alternative medicines to anti-vaccine zealots.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
She Who Must Be Obeyed
This biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek presents her as far more complicated, awful and brilliant than we had imagined.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
All-women shortlist for BBC Short Story Prize
An all-female shortlist has been revealed for...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Friday, 27 November, 2009
One Moment in Time
The story of the 1968 Summer Olympics, when black American athletes took a stand.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
A New Nation
An account of America’s first quarter-century, presented with great insight and scholarship.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Domestic Dysfunction
In this quietly devastating domestic novel, a facade of household perfection conceals a dark secret.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Administrators announce Borders closing down sales
In a late development this evening, Borders...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Friday, 27 November, 2009
When Detroit Never Slept
In this novel of midcentury Detroit, a young woman searches for authenticity and passion.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Please Mr. Postman
This meditation on the art of letter-writing embraces old friends — Flaubert, Freud, the Mitfords — and plenty of unknowns.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Administrators comb through Borders stock, staff left 'disappointed'
Administrators have begun assessing the value...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Publishers say Borders exposure 'minimised'
Publishers have limited their exposure to...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Planning on stimulating the literary economy this holiday season but at a loss for ideas? We asked a few best-selling novelists what books they’ll be giving as gifts this year.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Nelson Mandela 'fake foreword' in Congo president's book were his words
The Nelson Mandela Foundation has threatened legal action against the president of Congo-Brazzaville after he claimed the foreword of his new book had been penned by the anti-apartheid leader.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
L,B signs two from journalist
Little, Brown has signed a two-book deal for...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Abacus goes modern
Abacus has acquired "a perfectly pitched...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Fig Tree snaps up Hunt début
Juliet Annan at Fig Tree has bought a début...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Oneworld signs "moneyless man"
A man who has lived for a year without using...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Borders 'unlikely' to be resupplied with book stock
Borders UK is "unlikely" to be resupplied...... More...
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Holiday Gift Guide: Unforgettable Books for Those You Remember
The New York Times’s book critics share their favorites from the last year.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 27 November, 2009
Weekly book agenda: UK's 'most enjoyable' reads, comics festival in France
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Friday, 27 November, 2009
Nelson Mandela's 'bogus' endorsement of African leader was real – but old
• Mandela foundation forced into embarrassing climbdown over book• Congo-Brazzaville president used 1996 speech in foreword... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis2. 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 Walls5. BLINK, by Malcolm... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. LAVENDER MORNING, by Jude Deveraux3. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson4. YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME, by Dean Koontz5. TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, by David Michaels... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts3. THE SHACK, by William P. Young4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson5. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. OPEN, by Andre Agassi3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom4. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others5. A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS, by Mike Huckabee... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson2. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King3. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown4. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Borders in administration: official
MCR has been appointed administrators of...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Borders in administration: comments thread
We are keeping this thread open and on the...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Brooke Magnanti says she misses parts of old Belle de Jour life
Sex blogger Brooke Magnanti says in TV interview she was relieved at her unmasking as Belle de JourThe research scientist who outed herself as the anonymous sex blogger Belle de Jour has said she misses parts of her old life... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Herta Müller 'has a psychosis', claims Romanian agent who spied on her
Former head of Securitate claims Nobel prize-winning author 'has no contact with external reality'A former member of the Romanian secret police has launched a blistering attack on the Nobel prize winning writer Herta Müller.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Literate people 'should boycott books', says Murdoch biographer
Michael Wolff asks readers to stop buying ghostwritten 'brand enhancers' until publishers reform their outputRupert Murdoch's biographer Michael Wolff has called on "literate people" to boycott books until publishers stop bringing out ghostwritten memoirs by the likes of Sarah Palin.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Flooded bookshop could be closed for nine months
The New Bookshop in Cockermouth is hoping to...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
BDO pulls out from Borders advice role over 'conflict of interest'
Accountancy firm BDO has said that it will...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Online game for Ripley
Random House Books has commissioned its first...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Hamilton wins William Hill prize again
Duncan Hamilton has won the William Hill...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Random US expands generic Christmas books campaign
Random House US is expanding the generic...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
BDO pulls out from Borders advice role over 'conflict of interest'
Accountancy firm BDO has said that it will...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Borders future in chaos as administrators pull out at last minute
Accountants BDO Stoy Hayward cite 'a conflict' over taking control of the book chainThe future of Borders was plunged into fresh uncertainty today when the administrators lined up to take control of the troubled book chain pulled out.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Update: Borders UK appoints administrators
Note: This is an updated version of the story...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Palin's Going Rogue hits top spot in US
Sarah Palin's much-anticipated memoir, Going...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
BDO denies Borders administration story
BDO Stoy Hayward has denied that Borders UK...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Hodder's Booth buys Stephen Gately's novel
Hodder & Stoughton publisher Mark Booth has...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Borders UK enters administration
Borders UK has entered administration,...... More...
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
From Footnote to Fame in Civil Rights History
Claudette Colvin, who resisted unfair treatment on an Alabama bus nine months before Rosa Parks, lived an unheralded life until a recent book highlighted her story.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Waldo Hunt, King of the Pop-Up Book, Dies at 88
An advertising man turned novelty-book packager, Mr. Hunt was almost single-handedly responsible for the postwar revival of the pop-up book in the United States.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Limelight Lives, Burned by Booze
A rowdy collection of riotous tales about four of the British Isles’ most stylish drunken actors: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O’Toole and Oliver Reed.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Brooke Magnanti, better known as call girl Belle de Jour, 'misses being a prostitute'
Brooke Magnanti to contact police after ex-boyfriend's "physical threat".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 26 November, 2009
Sarah Palin memoir tops US book sales
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Thursday, 26 November, 2009
'Going Rogue' Goes to Top of Book Sales Chart
The newly released memoir by Sarah Palin sold 469,000 copies in its first week of release, putting it ahead of new releases from authors like James Patterson and Stephen King.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
BDO poised with decision on Borders 'imminent'
Borders UK looks likely to go into...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Fiona Phillips to write book about Alzheimer's
Fiona Phillips resigned from GMTV last year to spend more time with her family, and, unlike many politicians when they employ the phrase, she clearly meant it.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Historic Paine deed falls out of 18th century novel
Rediscovered legal document not only dissolved the marriage of Thomas Paine but gave him cash in hand to buy his ticket to AmericaA torn sheet of 18th century paper which tumbled out of a novel by Tobias Smollett found in... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Publishers working on lifeline for Borders UK
The Publishers Association has established a...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Ebury promotes Telfer, Goodfellow
Ebury has promoted Hannah Telfer and Andrew...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Myriad Editions buys bold debut
Myriad Editions has bought a "bold" debut...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
To Hell with Publishing launches bookshop
Independent publisher To Hell with Publishing...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Blackwell names top 10 titles of the decade
Titles by Ian McEwan, Richard Dawkins and...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Spring release for library review
Culture minister Margaret Hodge is to launch...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Ronan to front BBC's "My Story"
Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, "The One Show"...... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Tesco book discount offer: An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' - The Return - for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday, November 19, 2009.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Stephen King plots The Shining sequel
Horror writer Stephen King has revealed that a sequel to The Shining would focus on a 40-year-old Danny TorranceJack Torrance's little boy Danny was last seen recuperating in Maine after escaping the insane evil of the Overlook Hotel, but Stephen... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Publishers in the dark over Borders' future as payment deadline passes
Publishers are waiting for news on Borders,...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'I, Alex Cross,' three Stephenie Meyer titles in top ten
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Costa Book Awards shortlists revealed: Booker Prize-winner in the running
Costa Awards are given annually to authors based in the United Kingdom and Ireland for what the jury deems the "most enjoyable books of the year." On November 24, shortlists for the 2009 awards were announced. Novel award finalists... More...
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Two novels by Nobel Prize-winner Müller set for English publication
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
China backs writers in fight against Google Books
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Wednesday, 25 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Power and Style, in the Ring and the World
Wil Haygood’s biography of Sugar Ray Robinson captures the great midcentury boxer’s grace and power as well as it’s been captured.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Two dead authors in line for Costa Prize
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Little-known novelist vies with big names for Costa prize
Christopher Nicholson's The Elephant Keeper goes up against Hilary Mantel, Colm Tóibín and Penelope Lively in shortlist for £5,000 awardA touching story of an 18th-century boy's love affair with an elephant, which has so far attracted little critical attention, has... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Borders suspends website orders increasing administration fears
• Bookshop chain cancels author signing• At least three distributors have stopped supplying retailerThere were further fears for the future of Bordertonight after the struggling book and music retailer closed its website to new orders and cancelled at least one... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Books: They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It
A new book about the “gray zone” between life and death.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Costa Book Awards 2009: the shortlist
There are five categories in the Costa Book Awards 2009: for best novel, first novel, biography, poetry and children's book. The winners of each category will be announced on January 5 and the overall winner on January 26.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Clive James nominated for Costa book award
Clive James, best known as a broadcaster and writer of memoirs, has finally received recognition as a poet after being nominated for the Costa book prize.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Mantel shortlisted for Costa Prize
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker-winning novel has...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Celebrity fight-back begins as book sales rise
Book sales began to haul in some Christmas...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Hodgkinson wins Titchmarsh contest
A real-life story of a "mother's world turned...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Hodder-Williams and Morpeth step up, but Headline faces job cuts
Hachette UK has announced a large-scale...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Roberto Bolaño 'would much rather have been a murder cop'
'I'd could come back to the scene of the crime alone, by night,' posthumously acclaimed Chilean author reveals in newly translated interviews"I would like to have been a homicide detective, much more than being a writer," said acclaimed Chilean author... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
BBC Trust stands firm over Lonely Planet
The BBC Trust has rejected calls for BBC...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Tintin's 3D adventures to land in 2011, says Peter Jackson
Steven Spielberg's 3D adaptation of Tintin will take two years in post-production before it hits cinema screens, says producer Peter JacksonSteven Spielberg's 3D adaptation of Tintin is in the can, but it will be another two years before anyone sees... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Cockermouth bookshop left "devastated" by floodwaters
The New Bookshop in Cockermouth has been left...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Random House signs Simon Heffer
Random House has acquired the rights to a...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
H&S signs The Saturdays
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired book by...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Five flip-books named for World Book Day
Titles about dinosaurs, witches, ballerinas...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Online petition against Digital Economy Bill gains ground
More than 15,000 people have signed a...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Cockermouth bookshop left "devastated" by floodwaters
The New Bookshop in Cockermouth has been left...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Quango scrutiny for MLA and Arts Council England
A new Local Government Association (LGA)...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Digital Economy Bill may hit agents, say lawyers
Agents and some publishers may need to...... More...
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
'The Future of the Book' among 2009 FIL forums
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Tuesday, 24 November, 2009
Book Calls Jewish People an ‘Invention’
The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 23 November, 2009
Popular Author’s Audiobook Tries a New Format: Vinyl
David Sedaris’s publisher was drawn to the quirky idea of offering his “Live for Your Listening Pleasure” in a limited album format.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 23 November, 2009
Third distributor suspends supply with Borders
A third distributor has suspended supplies...... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Kerr MacRae joins Simon & Schuster as executive director
Kerr MacRae, Headline's deputy managing...... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture
Terry Teachout’s biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 23 November, 2009
Sarah Palin's Going Rogue going great guns at the tills
Former vice-presidential candidate's memoir racks up 300,000 sales on its first day in shopsSarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, has become one of the bestselling non-fiction books in history after it sold 300,000 copies in its first day on sale.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 23 November, 2009
Speculation mounts as Borders is put up for sale
Borders UK is once again the subject of...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Monday, 23 November, 2009
Borders UK stops taking customer orders
Borders' website has stopped taking customer...... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Son Objects to Moving Camus’s Remains
President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate’s son.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 23 November, 2009
FEP still has 'serious concerns' over Google deal
The Federation of European Publishers has...... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Richard Milner joins Quercus
Quercus has appointed Richard Milner as...... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Arts, Briefly: Oxfam and Booksellers Agree to Plan
According to The Guardian, representatives from Oxfam, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association met to create a plan to help redirect business back to local secondhand booksellers.... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger
“Pirate Latitudes” has unremarkable ambitions, standard genre flourishes and the stiff, uncomfortable tone of early work.... More...
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Rare Darwin book found on toilet bookcase
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
'Three Cups of Tea' sequel out December 1
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Noted translator of Chinese classics dies at 94
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Monday, 23 November, 2009
Demons and beefcake – the other side of Francis Bacon
The territories of Francis Bacon's soul have been explored widely; they have been the subject of a film, books and endless speculation. But the senior art historian John Richardson – who, at 85, is working on the last volume of... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Sado-masochism and stolen shoe polish: Francis Bacon's legacy revisited
Art historian John Richardson's revelations on the troubled artist he knew as a young manFrancis Bacon's was a life lived to extravagant extremes. His drunken excesses in the Colony Room Club in Soho; his carnivalesque, ruinous generosity; the formative occasion... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Enthusiasm for Palin, and Echoes of 2008 Divide
On her book tour, Sarah Palin has skipped the big cities authors usually visit in favor of smaller places where she and Senator John McCain performed well in 2008.... More...
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Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Nicolas Sarkozy provokes French left by honouring Albert Camus
• 'Anti-intellectual' leader accused of point-scoring• Author's admirers wary of posthumous recognition... More...
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Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Philip Larkin's love for mother and father shown in letters
He has become known for having a frosty relationship with his parents summed up by one of his most famous lines which suggested they had ruined his life.... More...
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Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Friedrich von Schiller: the Romantic lover
Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of passionate 'Ode to Joy' poet... More...
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Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Celebrity actors lend their voices to Audio Bible project
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Sunday, 22 November, 2009
Plotting Thrillers in the Fog of China
So much of what is known of China’s beating Communist heart is guesswork. But not for the spy novelist.... More...
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Disturbing the Comfortable
Stories rooted in horror, fable and fairy tale, by the Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.... More...
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Double Agency
In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.... More...
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Martin Amis: the sexual revolution killed my sister Sally
Martin Amis has claimed that the sexual revolution played a pivotal part in the destruction of his sister Sally who became "one of its most spectacular victims".... More...
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Return to Progress
Collected columns denouncing the Bush wars and tax cuts and recounting the fits of nerves that President Obama coolly overcomes.... More...
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Jung’s 'The Red Book' out of the vault and inspiring dialogue
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
Google books hearing set for February 18
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Saturday, 21 November, 2009
The Pain That Binds
In this novel, a girl’s disappearance sets off ripples of grief in a small South Dakota town.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Andre Agassi’s Hate of the Game
Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories
Carol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Taking No Prisoners
A historical novel about the ferocious Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest and the slaves who followed him.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Into the West
A thorough, well-wrought political history of James K. Polk’s presidency and the triumph of Manifest Destiny.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Word Made Flesh
Questions for, quibbles with and tributes to the sometimes inscrutable protagonist of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
I’m a sucker for tales of extreme weather, so my curiosity was piqued by Linda Howard’s “Ice,” new at No. 8 on the hardcover fiction list.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Crossroads: How Can We Help the World’s Poor?
Humanitarians are fiercely divided about what helps poor people. It’s clear that doing good is harder than it looks.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Fiction Chronicle
Books by Janet Skeslien Charles, Robert Hicks, Anita Diamant, N. M. Kelby and Rebecca Stott.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
A Soldier’s Story
A writer revisits the 1918 battle that left its mark on his grandfather.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
A Jaundiced View
The lives — as well as the livers — of the characters in Will Self’s beguiling linked stories are in very bad shape indeed.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
My True Story
A history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of Tehran
A love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
WHS 'walks away' from Borders deal, as distributor cuts off supply
At least one major distributor has ceased...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Flooding fears for Cumbrian booksellers
Fears are growing for a bookshop in...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Martin Amis says new novel will get him 'in trouble with the feminists'
Author expects criticism of The Pregnant Widow, but insists it's "actually a very feminist book" that shows how his sister fell victim to the sexual revolutionMartin Amis's new novel The Pregnant Widow will explore his belief that the apparent freedom... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 20 November, 2009
Oxfam seeks peace with secondhand booksellers
Charity has agreed to work with professional dealers in valuing rare stockOxfam has attempted to patch up its differences with secondhand booksellers after they accused the charity of driving them out of business in the Guardian this August.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 20 November, 2009
Reichs to write teen thrillers
In the latest example of an author extending...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
"Buzzing" Bill Turnbull to Sphere
Sphere has has bought the rights to a...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Blake signs Sadie Frost's 'amazing story'
John Blake has acquired an autobiography by...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Piatkus wins Angel's Journal at auction
Piatkus has fought off competition from three...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Granta acquires two from Chris Adrian
Granta Books commissioning editor Michal...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Belle de Jour 'calls in police' after exboyfriend's internet rant
Brooke Magnanti the research scientist better known as the £300anhour call girl Belle de Jour has said she will contact police after her exboyfriend made a "physical threat" to her current lover in a rambling internet blog.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 20 November, 2009
Government piracy plans forge ahead
The government is recommending changes to the...... More...
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Oprah Winfrey to announce her talkshow is ending
Ratings powerhouse to close in 2011, allowing Oprah to concentrate on her own cable channelAfter more than 20 years in which Oprah Winfrey shook up the medium of the daytime talkshow, rising to become a ratings and cultural powerhouse, she... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 20 November, 2009
Weekly book agenda: Guadalajara book fair, popular new releases
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Michael Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' published posthumously
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Friday, 20 November, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin3. OUR CHOICE, by Al Gore4. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson3. BORN OF FIRE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon4. YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME, by Dean Koontz5. TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, by David Michaels... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts3. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. OPEN, by Andre Agassi2. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom3. A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS, by Mike Huckabee4. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner5. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown3. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett5. THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Portobello Books signs up Herta Müller's new novel
Independent publisher sees off competition in fierce auction for rights to Nobel winnerNobel laureate Herta Müller's new novel Atemschaukel, which follows the story of a German-Romanian teenager deported to a Ukrainian labour camp, will be published in the UK next... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Sadie Frost signs deal to tell 'everything' about her life with Jude Law
The "kissandtell" interview that Samantha Burke the mother of Jude Law's love child gave Hello magazine may be the least of his worries. Mandrake can disclose that the actor's former wife Sadie Frost has signed a lucrative contract to write... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Genevieve Fox's Book Club
Does Adam Foulds's Bookershortlisted novel The Quickening Maze delight Genevieve Fox's Book Club? Or do they prefer Wolf Hall?... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Joe Allston's Literary Diary
Our literary insider Joe Allston gets the gossip on the Google Book Settlement Andrew Motion's appointment as a Booker judge and beloved agent William Miller... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Google still has 'de facto monopoly' over orphans, experts warn
A change of US law will be required for...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Libraries to offer NHS health guidance
The Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) has...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Corvus heads out West with new Parker series for 2010
Corvus will attempt to "reinvigorate" the...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Atlantic buys ‘epic’ Zhang
Atlantic Books has bought an "epic" novel by...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Research points up next targets for SRC
The library-based national Summer Reading...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Wm Heinemann tempts Fates
Jason Arthur, publishing director at...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Museum of storytelling planned for Oxford
Anonymous £2.5m donation paves the way for a major new children's attraction, due to open in 2014From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Colum McCann wins National Book award for fiction
Irish-born writer's novel Let the Great World Spin, focused on Philippe Petit's World Trade Centre tightrope walk, acclaimed as 'gravity-defying feat'Colum McCann won the fiction prize at the National Book awards in New York last night for his novel Let... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Velvet Underground members to reunite in New York
Three members of the pioneering band are to share a stage for the first time in more than a decade, discussing their 'music and legacy' at the New York Public LibraryThree members of the Velvet Underground are to reunite next... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Waterstone's rolls out secondhand bookstore
Waterstone's has become the latest online...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Lonely Planet on the box
Lonely Planet is planning a UK TV...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Short Books hopes topical postie prose will deliver
An elegy to a lost age of the postal service...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Sony pre-orders "exceed expectations"
Pre-order demand for Sony's Daily Edition...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Eason backtracks on planned wage cut
Irish bookseller Eason & Son has given up on...... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Colum McCann Wins National Book Award
Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Newly Released Books
Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage
This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.... More...
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Colum McCann wins major US fiction prize
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
'Twilight' author, Stephenie Meyer is America’s JK Rowling
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Former UK Poet Laureate to chair 2010 Man Booker jury
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury to lead FIL international programs
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Thursday, 19 November, 2009
Atheist author Philip Pullman writes alternative ending for Jesus in Bible
Pullman writes his own version of the New Testament in which the story of Jesus is given a "different ending".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down
Paul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category
A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel
While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
How far should an author's reputation depend on the values of today?
Neil Gaiman was attacked by fans for professing that Rudyard Kipling - the first Briton ever to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature - was a literary hero of his.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Politically incorrect children's authors
Rudyard Kipling is not the only children's author whose reputation has been examined under the microscope of political correctness... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Coraline author Neil Gaiman received 'hate mail' for liking Rudyard Kipling
Neil Gaiman the author behind the surprise film hit Coraline received "hate mail" for professing that Rudyard Kipling was one of his literary heroes.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Librarians must 'maintain order’ in digital world
Librarians will have just as important a role...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Cave, Roth and Oz up for Bad Sex
The Bad Sex Award continues to be no...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book buried under awards
As the fantasy world's renaissance man collects yet another award, he talks to Michelle PauliNeil Gaiman's sweep of this year's children's fiction prizes with The Graveyard Book continued today after the Booktrust teenage prize came his way at a ceremony... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
S&S acquires two from Waterstone's winner
Simon & Schuster Children's Books has bought...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Kate Shaw to join Viney Agency
Kate Shaw is to join The Viney Agency as a...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Bad sex award shortlist pits Philip Roth against stiff competition
Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Philip Roth is up against Amos Oz, Paul Theroux and Nick Cave on the bad sex award shortlistThe story of the seduction of a lesbian by an ageing stage actor, which includes an eye-watering scene with a... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Gaiman wins Booktrust Teenage Prize
Neil Gaiman, the cult adult and children's...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Andrew Motion to chair Booker prize judges
Newly free from his duties as poet laureate, the poet will lead deliberations to find 2010's best novelFormer poet laureate Andrew Motion will chair the judging panel for next year's Man Booker prize, following an eclectic roster of former chairs... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Tesco book discount offer: The Return by Victoria Hislop
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' The Return for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday November 19 2009.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Christian charity forced to put Wesley Owen on the block
Christian bookshop chain Wesley Owen has been...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Motion to chair Man Booker prize
Former poet laureate Andrew Motion is to be...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Otto Penzler joins Cheetham at Atlantic
Atlantic has expanded its publishing outfit...... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Belle de Jour: I don't believe Brooke Magnanti was a happy hooker
I find myself unable to celebrate either Brooke Magnanti's literary skill or her apparent candour writes Liz Hunt.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste
Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift
A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.... More...
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Wednesday, 18 November, 2009
Belle de Jour's mother proud of 'brilliant' daughter Brooke Magnanti
Mother of research scientist unmasked as former prostitute proud of her daughter for "standing up for herself".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
The Authors' Hearts Beat Faster. Publishing Was So Close Now. . .
Harlequin Enterprises, the queen of the romance world, has signed a partnership agreement with Author Solutions, a company that helps aspiring scribes self-publish their books.... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
More English Translations on the Way for Nobel Winner's Novels
Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to publish two novels by Herta Muller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month.... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Sir John Mortimer: memorial service celebrates 'magnificent Mortimer'
Writer John Mortimer's life celebrated by celebrities and his son from an affair with actress Wendy Craig.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Usborne makes young adult move with angels trilogy
Usborne is entering the young adult market...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Twilight: book breaks sales records
Stephenie Meyer the author of the phenomenally successful Twilight Saga books has broken Waterstone's record for the fastest time to sell a million copies.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Rough Guides launches Vodaphone App
Rough Guides is launching new travel guide...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Improved Google deal, still has 'big difficulties' says BA
The Booksellers Association has warned that...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
The Lost Symbol exceeds one million sales
Sales of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Guinness stays on top as Meyer climbs
There's no change at the top of the charts...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
H&S buys crossover YA series
Hodder & Stoughton has acquired the rights to...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Why teens are staying up until Twilight
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Man Asian literary prize goes to Chinese bestseller
Su Tong's political fable The Boat to Redemption takes $10,000 awardThe story of a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge has won celebrated Chinese author Su Tong the Man... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Asda rolls out its Christmas offer on hardbacks
Asda will be offering two of its 'Top 20'...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Borders UK disbands web team
Borders UK's e-commerce team is believed to...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Canadian writers among first to reject new Google deal
The Writers' Union of Canada has become the...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Settlement will not give Google dominance, says AG
The Google settlement will not give the...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Informa: publishing businesses "resilient"
Taylor & Francis' parent company Informa has...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
US bookstore sales up 7% in September
Bookstore sales rose 7% in September, to...... More...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Shocking - but only because Belle de Jour wrote so well
The unmasking of callgirl blogger Belle de Jour as a serious research scientist appears to contradict all we think we know about the oldest profession. But says Rowan Pelling the British have more secrets than we care to admit.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
"Raise the Red Lantern" author wins Asian book prize
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
Belle de Jour's father: I slept with 150 prostitutes
Brooke Magnanti broke off contact with her father after she discovered he was sleeping with prostitutes.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Sullenberger Takes Issue With New Book
A pilot whom many consider a hero takes issue with a new account of the flight that landed in the Hudson.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Though Ed Lazar’s younger son, Zachary, did not know his father well, he has written a pungent-sounding but maddeningly vague book about Ed’s murder.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Belle de Jour's father: I'm brokenhearted after discovering her past
The father of the woman who has unmasked herself as the highclass call girl Belle de Jour said he has been left "brokenhearted" after discovering the truth about his only child's secret life.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Stephenie Meyer's enthusiasm dims for another Twilight book
'I'm burned out on vampires right now', author of Bella and Edward blockbusters tells OprahWith sales of more than 70m copies she is the queen of teen vampire romance, but Twilight author Stephenie Meyer has announced that she's "a little... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Andy Warhol's children's book illustrations go on sale
Artist's little-known interpretation of the story of the little red hen joins huge auction of classic children's literatureThey are a long way from the iconic pop art for which he is best known but a set of illustrations for a... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Fogg and Higgins join Century
Century has announced two new appointments,...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Google Settlement to open "new avenues" for writers
The Google Settlement will open up "new...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Wright in, Kintoff up at HC
Oliver Wright has been appointed UK sales...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
M&B teams up with Sony on e-reader
Mills & Boon has teamed up with Sony to...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Belle de Jour says her mother supports her
Mother of scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti expresses support after her daughter was revealed as a prostitute.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Watson to leave Waterstone's
Tim Watson, Waterstone's divisional manager...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Google offers concessions on books deal
Google Books submission after US government objections promises greater flexibility and more modest international scopeGoogle will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library, if a court approves a revised lawsuit settlement.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Michael Moorcock to write Doctor Who novel
Doctor Who fans give a cautious welcome to veteran SF and fantasy author following BBC Books commissionAcclaimed science fiction writer Michael Moorcock has moved to calm the concerns of Doctor Who fans after he revealed he would be writing a... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven 'owes its success to cigarettes'
Band biographer claims that DJs only played the now classic song because it was the 'perfect length' for a cigarette breakWas the secret to Stairway to Heaven's success the fact that it gave DJs the chance to nip out for... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Belle de Jour's real identity revealed
The real identity of Belle de Jour, writer of...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Open Book Alliance contests revised Google settlement
The Open Book Alliance has accused Google and...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
PA to support Google Settlement
The Publishers Association has filed a letter...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Hely Hutchinson defends Waterstone's
Tim Hely Hutchinson has defended Waterstone's...... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
In Fleury’s Memoir, Rangers Years Are a ‘Nightmare’
With its revelations of sexual abuse and details of substance abuse, Theo Fleury’s memoir has rocked the hockey world as surely as Andre Agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 16 November, 2009
Arts, Briefly: Winnie-the-Pooh Returns to Court
The producer who acquired licensing rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works and characters from A. A. Milne has been suing Disney for rights infringement since 1991, and isn’t stopping now, according to BBC News.... More...
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Larceny, she wrote: Patricia Cornwell sues
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Exposed: the most intimate secret of erotic blogger Belle de Jour
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
European publishers give Google book deal cautious welcome
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Major prizes honor Asian, American, Spanish-language writers
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Nabokov’s 'Laura' manuscript up for auction
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Monday, 16 November, 2009
Belle du Jour identity twist far fetched even for Billie Piper
Unlike Dr Brooke Magnanti I don't keep a diary; far too perilous an activity if you ask me.... More...
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Enid Blyton banned from BBC for nearly 30 years
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Denholm Elliott PoW Shakespeare book to be auctioned
The family of the actor Denholm Elliott is auctioning an archive of his memorabilia including a book of Shakespeare's plays sent to him at a prisoner of war camp in Germany during the Second World War.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Who wasn't Belle de Jour
The list of those rumoured to have been Belle de Jour is long and ... varied.... More...
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Belle de Jour author unmask herself amid 'perfect storm' of feelings
It was the new millennium's equivalent of the 1980s' search for the golden hare: the quest to identify the author of the call girl blogger 'Belle de Jour'.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Overdue school library books return 50 years later with $1,000
School receives two books checked out in 1959 along with money order to cover fines from anonymous former studentA school librarian in Arizona says a former student has returned two books checked out 50 years ago along with $1,000 (£600)... More...
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Google: UK publishers named as plaintiffs
Rightsholders from the UK, Australia and...... More...
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
BBC banned Enid Blyton for 30 years
Author was excluded from the BBC for 30 years because prodcuers thought her "secondrate".... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Belle de Jour blogger unmasks herself as 'big mouth ex-boyfriend' looms
Research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announces she is author of mysterious call girl blog and says she has no regrets about working as prostitute... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Gruffalo creator tells of the tragedy behind her books
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Sunday, 15 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign
Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.... More...
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Saturday, 14 November, 2009
Sir Salman Rushdie and a 'rude' literary row
When Sigrid Rausing the Tetra Pak heiress announced this summer that Alex Clark was stepping down as editor of her books magazine Granta she left the literary world bemused.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 14 November, 2009
PA to support Google Settlement following amendments
The Publishers Association has filed a letter...... More...
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Saturday, 14 November, 2009
UK publishers named as plaintiffs in new Google Settlement
Rightsholders from the UK, Australia and...... More...
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Saturday, 14 November, 2009
Earl Coleman, Publisher and Poet, Dies at 93
Mr. Coleman started a custom translation service and built it into the Plenum Publishing Corporation, one of the world’s largest translators and publishers of scientific and technical material.... More...
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Saturday, 14 November, 2009
Palin uses book to get her revenge
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Saturday, 14 November, 2009
Why have teenage girls been bitten by the Edward Cullen bug to devour the Twilight novels?
Why do teenagers eat the Twilight novels? Why do they follow the adventures of young Bella and her vampire lover Edward? What do they think they see? Last night, I encountered some fans. "You are attracted to it because it... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Stephenie Meyer turns rainy little Forks – and the world – into a Twilight zone
For millions of teenagers around the globe, next Friday is the most exciting day of the year: New Moon, the second film in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga about a sexy vampire, debuts in UK cinemas.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
The Morning After
Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Sarah Palin book Going Rogue attacks John McCain campaign
In her book Going Rogue Sarah Palin reveals tensions with John McCain's campaign aides but does not mention Levi Johnston.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
When Type Was Poured Hot
In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Illness and Intimacy
The professor of psychiatry who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
The Cheating Game
James McManus explores the characteristically American history of poker.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Angels and Insects
A fictional metamorphosis conveys what it means to be alien.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Rational Irrationality
The story of 2008’s crash, and an effort to size up the problem.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Road Trip
Chaucer’s lusty pilgrims return in a Modern English incarnation.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Nabokov’s Last Puzzle
The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
It’s not even Thanksgiving, and some Christmas-related books are already creeping up the list and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “The Lacuna,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 5.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Robert Louis Stevenson's archive goes online
Robert Louis Stevenson's works including the novels Treasure Island and Kidnapped have been put online for people to read for free in an archiving project.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Essay: Mau-Mauing the Flesh Eaters
Jonathan Safran Foer is just the latest in a long line of distinguished literary vegetarians.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Crime: Death’s Hit Man
Mystery novels by Stuart Neville, Derek Nikitas and Susan Kandel; and collections of crime fiction set in Boston and Pheonix.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Scientists nose out clue to preserving books: their smell
The complex perfume of ageing books has been broken down into its component chemicals by research that could assist conservatorsThe dusty smell of old books is one of the joys of visiting secondhand bookshops, and now scientists, who have identified... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
November Song
In the autumnal novel of Maureen Howard’s cycle of seasons, an 80-something narrator shares her inner Manhattan.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Love Crimes
In Paul Auster’s latest novel, the protagonist indulges passions new and forbidden.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
The Lies They Told
Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Performance Anxiety
Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective
The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Sanders appointed Pan Mac rights director
Harriet Sanders has been made rights director...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Trade backing for PEN’s libel proposals
The book trade has responded positively to...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Michael Haneke: I may collaborate with Michel Houellebecq
The Austrian director of The White Ribbon reveals that he and the controversial French author have discussed working togetherBoth are savage pessimists. Both have redefined the limits of their respective art forms. Both have expressed their admiration for the other.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed
Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisherIt is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Sarah Palin book Going Rogue attacks John McCain campaign
Sarah Palin's new memoir Going Rogue says John McCain's campaign left her 50000 out of pocket but does not mention Levi Johnston.... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
French novelist hits back after MP says she must show greater 'reserve'
Goncourt prize winner Marie MDiaye says politician's call for her to tone down criticism of Sarkozy is 'grotesque'The winner of this year's Goncourt prize has spoken out against an MP's "grotesque" calls for her to tone down her criticisms of... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Brookes to join Pan Macmillan
HarperCollins publishing director Wayne...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Brian May wows audience with set of Victorian photos
Queen guitarist unveils his new book, collecting 'stereographic' photography from the 19th centuryIt's not common to arrive at the British Library for an evening talk on a charming book of Victorian photographs and to be confronted by a minder roughly... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
McCain aides kept me bottled up, says Sarah Palin in new book
Republican vice-presidential candidate claims in Going Rogue that she was kept away from reporters against her wishes... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Picador signs Donoghue
Picador has acquired a new novel by Irish...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Faulks tie-in to BBC Books
BBC Books editorial director Albert Petrillo...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Capstone to publish Dragon's guide to business
Capstone is to publish a book of business...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Sainsbury’s switches to Random House for book club
Sainsbury’s has signed a deal with Random...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Waterstone's m.d. Johnson responds to Guardian attack
Waterstone's m.d. Gerry Johnson has responded...... More...
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Impresario of and for the People
Kenneth Turan offers up a raucous oral history of a New York theater titan.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 13 November, 2009
Weekly book agenda: new Michael Crichton title, Cervantes Prize
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Friday, 13 November, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis2. OUR CHOICE, by Al Gore3. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin4. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts3. SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown3. KINDRED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb4. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson5. THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. BORN OF FIRE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon2. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham3. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson4. YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME, by Dean Koontz5. ANGELS AT CHRISTMAS, by Debbie Macomber... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 12 November, 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. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Achebe rejects endorsement as 'father of modern African literature'
Nigerian novelist says he resists the tag 'very, very strongly' because it obscures the role of many other writersNigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled "the father of modern African literature".... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
BCA’s sales drive puts more emphasis on children’s market
Book club business BCA is seeking to double...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Salt's campaign funds eroded by bad autumn sales
Independent publisher Salt has seen the funds...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Canada book sales resist the downturn
The global recession has left many industries...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
TBP reins back on celebrity biographies
The Book People has “deliberately” reduced...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Help for Heroes presses into action with real-life charity book
HarperPress is rush releasing a book with...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Authors help pilot international children's reading groups
Michael Morpurgo and Frank Cottrell Boyce among writers working with discussion groups linking children in the UK with peers in China, Ghana, Egypt and PakistanAuthors including former children's laureate Michael Morpurgo and the Carnegie medal-winning Frank Cottrell Boyce are taking... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Churchill's speeches fail exam
Texts written by masters of the English language including Winston Churchill Ernest Hemingway and William Golding would have been deemed below average under a new computerised exam system.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Wordsworth relaunches Children's Classics range
Wordsworth Editions is relaunching its...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
UK publishers' total sales up 2.7%
UK publishers’ total sales were up by 2.7% in...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
WHS trading "in line"
W H Smith has said it is trading "in line...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Australian BA "disappointed at lost opportunity"
The Australian Booksellers Association has...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Rising costs blunt profit at CUP
Cambridge University Press (CUP) has reported...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
BBC2 reveals spring 2010 season
A Martin Amis adaptation is among the...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Donald Harington, Ozark Surrealist, Dies at 73
Mr. Harington created a surreal rural mini-world in more than a dozen novels set in the fictional Ozark hamlet of Stay More, Ark.... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
French youth don't 'rate' books
Young French adults do not rate books very...... More...
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
AmazonEncore brings self-published books into the spotlight
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Amazon delivers Kindle books to PCs
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Thursday, 12 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Stephen King’s Latest Cast Feels Real
“Under the Dome” gravely threatens Stephen King’s status as a mere chart-busting pop cultural phenomenon.... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
A Team, but Watch How You Put It
Andre Agassi’s new memoir, “Open,” is an unusual addition to the shelves of jock autobiography.... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Jerry Hall to star in TV version of Martin Amis's Money
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
BBC enters bedroom to portray the 'dreadful' Enid Blyton
Much loved for her children's books such as the Famous Five and Noddy Enid Blyton is about to have a radical makeover courtesy of the BBC.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Palgrave buys international adoption story
Ben Mason at Conville & Walsh has sold world...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Founder of English Agency Japan dies
William Miller, founding managing director of...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
BCA to target book buyers with website relaunch
Book club business BCA is planning to...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Shakespearean science to Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury publishing director Michael...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Waterstone's bucks trend with increased advertising spend
Waterstone's has increased its advertising...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Tesco book discount offer: The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' The Other Hand for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday November 12 2009.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Siegfried Sassoon's manuscripts go online
The first ever online collection of the manuscripts, photos and letters of Siegfried Sassoon, launched this Armistice day, focuses on his war poetry"Write again, write again. I'm not dead yet. I've got weeks and weeks to live," writes Siegfried Sassoon... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Twilight sucks up People's Choice award nominations
Vampire love affair leads race for public's votes with six nodsIt's unlikely to figure at next year's Oscars, but the Twilight Saga films, based on Stephenie Meyers's books about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire, look... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
QED publisher Steve Evans dies
Steve Evans, founder and managing director of...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Engstrom takes helm as Reed chief departs after eight months
Ian Smith has resigned as chief executive of...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Breedon Books goes into administration
Local interest and sporting press Breedon...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Bertelsmann records improved third-quarter profits
Bertelsmann has said that its "strict cost...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Australian gov scraps proposed changes to book imports
The Australian Government has announced that...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Engstrom in as Reed chief departs after 10 months
Ian Smith has resigned as chief executive of...... More...
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Catholic Church corruption story wins top Canada prize
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Wednesday, 11 November, 2009
Books of The Times: A Cool Pilot, but the Plane Was Cooler
Advances in aviation and digital technology have made pilots almost superfluous, argues William Langewiesche in his new book.... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2009: extracts
Extracts from the winning books... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Veteran author wins Roald Dahl Funny Prize
A veteran children's author has beaten David Walliams the comedian and actor to win a literary prize for the funniest book set up in the memory of Roald Dahl.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Stephen King fans join gigantic 'hide and seek' to mark book launch
To mark publication of Under the Dome, snippets of the story are seeded in unlikely locationsStephen King fans have been taking part in a game of literary hide and seek, concealing snippets of text from his new novel Under the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Roald Dahl funny prize goes to 'disgusting and horrible' tale
Philip Ardagh's Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky takes award designed to put the fun back into readingA "disgusting and horrible" story of a smelly man in an oddball town, Philip Ardagh's Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Guinness retains top spot as Cole slips below Brown
Guinness World Records has retained its...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Britain is free speech 'blackspot' says QC
Geoffrey Robertson QC described Britain as "a...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Faber and Orchard victorious at Dahl's Funny prize
Titles by Faber and Orchard Books have...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
D&C gets crafty as Don returns to BBC
Former "Gardener's World" presenter Monty Don...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Northumbria UP launches trade imprint
Northumbria University Press has launched a...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Ex-Sun editor writes children's book about his alcohol problems
The Truth About Leo, by David Yelland, tells the story of a 10-year-old boy watching his father struggle with alcoholismFormer Sun editor David Yelland has written a children's book about a boy with an alcoholic father, which he revealed yesterday... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Waterstone's has 'killed' bookselling, reports Guardian
"How Waterstone's killed bookselling", is the...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1768: 10 weird facts
The first English encyclopaedia contained almost as much fiction and speculation as truth.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Change English libel law, urge PEN and Index
English libel law should be changed to put...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Amazon on charm offensive with agents
Amazon.com has gone on "a charm offensive",...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Thames & Hudson profits halve after £800k warehouse closure
Thames & Hudson's pretax profit has more than...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Icon Books edges profits up
Non-fiction indie Icon Books saw a slight...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Cultural Criminology wins Distinguished Book award
A criminal psychology title published by Sage...... More...
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Judge approves extension for revised Google book settlement
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Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Books of The Times: In a Sketchy Hall of Mirrors, Nabokov Jousts With Death and Reality
In “The Original of Laura,” fragments of a novel that Nabokov left unfinished at his death, he imagines the death of his protagonist as a sort of Nietzschean act of will.... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
New extension granted for Google Settlement
The US judge presiding over the Google...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Year of 'consolidation' at The Book People leads to losses
Direct bookseller The Book People (TBP) Group...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
More Müller to Portobello
Portobello Books has acquired two new titles...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Carpenter to leave Pan Mac
Pan Macmillan's art director Fiona Carpenter...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Harlequin launches digital-only publishing house
Harlequin is to launch a digital-only...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Macmillan acquires Immortal Life
Macmillan Non-Fiction has bought the rights...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Andrew Motion rubbishes plagiarism charge
Military historian claiming that 'found' poem published in the Guardian makes unfair use of his work has 'got the wrong end of the stick', says former poet laureateThe military historian who accused Andrew Motion of plagiarism has "got the wrong... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 9 November, 2009
Philippa Gregory to ITV1
Philippa Gregory's contemporary thriller The...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Motion accused of ripping off historian over 'found' poem
A row has broken out over a Remembrance Day...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Anna Funder, author of Stasiland, on life since Berlin Wall collapsed
Stasiland: Stories From Behind the Berlin Wall, the award-winning book by Anna Funder, is an investigation of how East Germans' lives were shaped by the Berlin Wall. As Germany commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the wall, she... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Wirral u-turn pre-empted inquiry findings
Wirral Council's sudden u-turn to halt the...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Opt in for foreign publishers expected in revised Google Settlement
The Google Settlement is expected to see "few...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Harper dares with Alistair McLean reissue
HarperCollins will reissue a series of novels...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Rushdie writes Haroun sequel
Salman Rushdie is producing a sequel to his...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
JR to publish Meyer biography
JR Books is publishing a biography of...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Morgan wins Aldeburgh Prize
Scottish poet J O Morgan has picked up £3,000...... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Agassi Basks in His Own Spotlight
As described in this autobiography, Andre Agassi’s life is lively but narrow, since his curiosity does not extend far beyond tennis.... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?
A soon-to-be published book has revived the long-running debate about whether the German philosopher Martin Heidegger can be separated from his philosophy.... More...
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Foreign media count cost of UK libel laws
Britain's reputation for "libel tourism" is driving American and foreign publishers to consider abandoning the sale of newspaper and magazines in Britain and may lead to them blocking access to websites, MPs have been warned.Publishers, human rights groups and campaigners... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 9 November, 2009
Penguin to launch Assassin's Creed novel
Penguin has teamed up with videogames producer Ubisoft: the novel Assassin's Creed Renaissance is released simultaneously with the game Assassin's Creed IIPenguin Books is embarking on the latest experiment in the publishing world to net new readers by launching a... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 9 November, 2009
Salman Rushdie plans sequel to ‘Haroun and the Sea of Stories’
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Monday, 9 November, 2009
Taiwan Firm Positioned for E-Reader Takeoff
Prime View International already produces displays for the most popular e-readers. By the end of the year, it will own the company that produces the “ink” for them.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 8 November, 2009
Book depicting 'Queen of Paraguay' Eliza Lynch prompts calls for Brazilian penitence
Eliza Lynch was depicted by Brazil as a warmongering manipulator after South America's bloodiest war. Irish authors present a more sympathetic accountWhen Brazil won the bloodiest war in South America's history it cast itself as the victim and Eliza Lynch... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 8 November, 2009
Art: A Torah Scribe Pushes the Parchment Ceiling
In Hebrew the word for Julie Seltzer’s arcane profession is soferet; she’s a scribe, a Hebrew calligrapher who writes sacred texts on parchment.... More...
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Sunday, 8 November, 2009
Women authors left off list of the year's top 10 books
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Sunday, 8 November, 2009
Nabokov's unfinished -- and unburned -- novel reappears
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Sunday, 8 November, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies
In trying to understand the work of the French anthropologist, look for pairs of opposites common to all human societies.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Children's author G P Taylor to leave 'sinking ship' Church of England and become Catholic
Vicarturnedauthor Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the "sinking ship" Church of England which he said was the "spiritual arm of New Labour" for Roman Catholicism.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Poet JO Morgan arrives 'out of the blue' to take Aldeburgh first poetry collection prize
JO Morgan's 70-page single poem Natural Mechanical, the story of a boy called Rocky, chosen unanimously by judgesThirty-one-year-old Scottish poet JO Morgan has won the Aldeburgh first collection prize for a narrative poem about a childhood on the Isle of... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Short Cuts
The life of Robert Altman, told in interviews with nearly 200 of his friends, colleagues and family members.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
She Did Go Home Again
A wonderfully intelligent and frank memoir about the Mennonite upbringing Rhoda Janzen returned to after an emotional and physical crisis.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Long-Delayed Opening for History of, and by, Joseph Papp
If Joseph Papp had had his way, “Free for All,” Kenneth Turan’s newly published oral history of Papp and the Public Theater he helped found, would never have seen the light of day.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Master of Disaster
John Irving’s new novel follows a father and son through 50 years in “a world of accidents.”... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Exhibition Review | 'A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy': At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew
“A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Arts | Westchester: After 96 Novels, Still Waiting for a Best Seller
Todd Strasser of Larchmont often uses fictionalized versions of nearby towns and schools in his novels for children and young adults.... More...
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
Monster success: The Gruffalo is best bedtime story
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Saturday, 7 November, 2009
A Chat About 'The Good Soldiers'
David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers," based on eight months in Iraq with a battalion sent as part of the surge.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Poached, Then Coddled
A duck discovers a huge speckled egg in “The Odd Egg”; readers free a frog by opening the pop-up book “Big Frog Can’t Fit In.”... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Family Circle
A journey in pictures and verse from an unexplored beach to a busy music-filled family room and into a tranquil, moonlit night.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: The Art of Sound
A pop-up romp through cubism and futurism, and a lesson in early-20th-century modernist formalism.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: GRRRR!!! Oops!
This beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic fable has only seven words, all sound effects.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Color Schemes
An illustrated poem about the seasons; a story about a penguin searching for new colors; and a collection of classic fairy tales with vivid pictures.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: When Bulldozers Roamed the Earth
A book imagining trucks as dinosaurs, and other explorations of the primal place of machines in the lives of small children.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Snow Zone
Books about a squirrel waiting for winter; a bunny having a snow day; and Santa getting ready for Christmas.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Everyday Weirdness
This illustrated collection of surreal tales features water buffalo, stick figures and rivers of unread poetry.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Blowin’ in the Wind
Two young adult histories and a graphic novel about the worst ecological disaster in American history.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Boys at War
A young adult novel about an 18-year-old American soldier struggling under the weight of his experience in Iraq.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Foreign Aid
This lovely picture book tells a true story about Masai villagers who bestow a heartfelt gift after 9/11.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Whale Riders
A tightly paced young adult novel set in a steampunk version of the First World War.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Children’s Books: Field Guides to Fairies
A recent crop of fairy-themed novels and reworked fairy tales is proving the resilience of an age-old genre.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Happy Days
An argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin3. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
General Sir Richard Dannatt signs up for explosive memoir
Undeterred by the criticism of his declaration that he would serve as a defence minister in a Conservative government Gen Sir Richard Dannatt has announced that he has signed a lucrative deal to write his memoirs.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Friday, 6 November, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom4. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell5. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Deadly Summit
An American climber recounts some of the most dramatic attempts on the peak of K2.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Gruffalo tops poll of bedtime stories
Children's classic voted best bedtime story in a poll of Radio 2 listeners.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
University presses 'struggling' in recession
A number of the UK's university presses are...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Andy Adamson takes on books at Borders
Andy Adamson, Borders merchandise and supply...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Transworld acquires Army chief autobiography
Transworld has bought the rights to the...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Orion signs début author through Writers' Workshop
Orion has acquired world rights to an...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Wallace's 'special' title to Ebury
Ebury Press has bought the rights to an...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Eason faces staff revolt over 'immoral' pay cut
Irish bookseller Eason is trying to impose a...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Postal strikes called off until new year
The union representing Royal Mail staff has...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Tick Tock to launch fiction list
Independent children's non-fiction publisher...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
BCA split into two divisions
BCA has been divided into two distinct...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Kingston University launches Press
A new university press is being launched,...... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Hulk Hogan’s memoir enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 12. Another former grappler, John Irving, hits the fiction list at No. 4. Do I smell a matchup?... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Essay: Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?
E-mail and cellphone novels may be making the language easier — even for the Japanese.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Forecast: Self-Serving
A guide to using game theory to divine and shape the future, based on the premise that people do what’s best for them.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Her Royal Century
This official biography chronicles the parties, the games, the trips, the charitable causes — and the trouble thanks to Edward VIII.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Friday, 6 November, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Heavy Lifting
A candid memoir from the multitalented wrestler Hulk Hogan.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Animal Planet
Amy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Stephen King’s Glass Menagerie
When an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and Idols
This novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
The Critic’s Critic
A valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Fiction Chronicle
Novels by Mattox Roesch, Nick Cave, H. M. Naqvi and Sam Savage.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown3. TRUE BLUE, by David Baldacci4. LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER, by John Irving5. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham2. THE UNTAMED BRIDE, by Stephanie Laurens3. DEADLOCK, by Iris Johansen4. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson5. HOT ON HER HEELS, by Susan Mallery... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts2. PUSH, by Sapphire3. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young5. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Books of The Times: ‘Amaze Me,’ Mother Said, So That’s What She Did
Mary Karr’s searing new memoir of alcoholism and recovery is every bit as absorbing as her devastating 1995 memoir, “The Liars’ Club,” which secured her place on the literary map.... More...
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Weekly book agenda: Sharjah World Book Fair, Premio Leya
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
Al Gore reads from new book at Miami Book Fair
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Friday, 6 November, 2009
No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women
Publishers Weekly's choices for top books of the year has drawn protests from a women's literary group, which notes that there are no female writers on the list.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Martine McCutcheon is heroine of her own novel
Unabashed by Lynda La Plante's complaint to Mandrake last month about publishers paying vast sums to television personalities Martine McCutcheon admits that she wrote her debut novel The Mistress in the hope that she could be chosen for the lead... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Roberto Bolaño was no literary rebel, says novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya
The myths surrounding the late Chilean author are false, says Bolaño's friend and fellow novelist, Horacio Castellanos MoyaHe's been compared to James Dean and described as the "Kurt Cobain of Latin-American literature", but the real Roberto Bolaño was very different... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Non-fiction slumps as fiction sales soar 90%
Retailers are concerned about the performance...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Penguin turns Assassin's Creed into a novel
Penguin Books and computer and video games...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Fickling signs Trash from Andy Mulligan
David Fickling Books has acquired world...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Cape takes Leonard Cohen title at auction
A biography of Leonard Cohen, the Canadian...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Printers to pass on paper price rises
Printers have warned publishers they can no...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Fury after women writers excluded from 'books of the year'
Campaigners incensed after Publishers Weekly's top 10 titles of 2009 ignores female authorsUS trade magazine Publishers Weekly has come under fire for failing to include a single woman in its list of the top 10 titles of 2009.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
'Good performance' keeps HC UK ahead of budget
HarperCollins has bounced back from its poor...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Internet access not 'fundamental right', says EU
Proposals to cut off persistent illegal file...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Quarto profits despite 'weak demand in the US'
International publishing group Quarto has...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Publishers urge politicians to support digital copyright plans
Publishers have called on politicians to...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Viz's Roger Mellie to curate Tate Britain exhibition
The cartoon's team will take charge of their own section of the Tate as part of a season on social satireRead more from today's diaryThere will be something just a little different coming up soon among the masterworks at Tate... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Lagardère publishing revenue increases
Lagardère's publishing arm was the only part...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Short Books takes £25k Wellcome prize
A title about living with Alzheimer's...... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Francisco Ayala, a Spanish Novelist and Literary Scholar, Dies at 103
Mr. Ayala was an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah
The outspoken media darling of populist conservatism uses the plots of the novels as a springboard for issues.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Firing Bullets of Data at Cozy Anti-Science
Michael Specter’s hotly argued diatribe targets those he thinks are emblems of stubbornly anti-scientific thinking, like Prince Charles, Dr. Andrew Weil and Whole Foods.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
An Appraisal: Other Voyages in the Shadow of Lévi-Strauss
In 1978 I made my first reporting trip to the Brazilian Amazon, with an orange-and-white Penguin paperback edition of “Tristes Tropiques” as the only book squeezed into my gear.... More...
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
Lula's malapropisms hit Brazilian bookstores
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Thursday, 5 November, 2009
New Yorker Writer's Book on Mass Extinctions Sells to Holt
Holt buys a New Yorker writer's book on mass extinctions of various species.... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Grant Could Assist Acquisition of Poet's Papers
The National Heritage Memorial Fund in Britain said that it would give about $900,000 toward the purchase of Siegfried Sassoon's archives, which includes notebooks he kept during World War I.... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Grisham hits out at 'shortsighted' discounts
Author John Grisham has called the book price...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Literary Life
Mark Sanderson on writers' tax bills recycled speeches and successful Brits... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
CUP signs 40 titles from Georgian Press
Cambridge University Press acquired roughly...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Wilkins retires from Tamarind
Verna Wilkins, publisher of Tamarind, has...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Denbighshire libraries face £90,000 cut
Library services in Denbighshire must find...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
MoM launches its first iPhone app
Michael O'Mara has today launched its first...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Arabian Nights set for Hollywood makeover
Director of the Mummy spin-off The Scorpion King signs up to give a new spin to the classic characters of One Thousand and One NightsIt introduced the world to such exotic characters as Aladdin, Sinbad, and Ali Baba and the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Stephen King publishes poem in Playboy
The Bone Church, a narrative work about an ill-fated jungle expedition, appears in November editionMarge Simpson's appearance as its cover girl has attracted a frenzy of media attention, but this month's edition of Playboy magazine contains another, almost equally unexpected... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Headline plots to ensure 'Dan Brown bread'
Headline rearranged the publication date of...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Authors back changes to literary festival circuit
Effective event promotion by festival...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Barack Obama's half-brother writes book 'inspired by father's abuse'
Obama's father beat me and my mother, Mark Ndesandjo says, as he launches self-published semi-autobiographical novel阅读中文 | Read this in ChineseBarack Obama's half-brother in China has broken his media silence to launch a semi-autobiographical novel, which he said was partly... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Penguin accused of 'flogging' its past
Penguin has been accused of "flogging its...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
European university press association to be formed
Forty academic presses, including 12 from the...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Arts Council outlines decision process
Arts Council England has published the...... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Wartime China’s Elegant Enigma
Mme. Chiang Kai-shek led a long, vastly complicated life, one that is richly detailed in Hannah Pakula’s long, vastly complicated new biography.... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Postcards From the Edge: Tocqueville’s Letters Home
Most of Alexis de Tocqueville’s letters home from America have never been published in English. But Frederick Brown has translated them for a volume due out next year.... More...
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Siegfried Sassoon archive likely to stay in UK after £550,000 award
• Siegfried Sassoon papers attracted interest from US• Cambridge library still short of asking priceA threat that a rich personal archive of Siegfried Sassoon's journals, poems and letters would be broken up or sold to the US appears to have... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Canadian, American writers win French literary prizes
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Wednesday, 4 November, 2009
Lauren Laverne to publish teenage novels
Lauren Laverne the TV presenter and radio DJ is to publish a series of teenage novels after signing a book deal.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
London Review of Books celebrates 30th birthday
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
The Online Price War Over Books Has a Fresh Twist (Or Two)
The price war over books sold online takes a new twist as Amazon continues to sell some titles for $9 even after they are released.... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’
Mr. Lévi-Strauss, a towering intellectual, transformed the West’s understanding of what was once called “primitive man.”... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Belongings of Siegfried Sassoon to be preserved at Cambridge University
A £550000 grant has been awarded to help preserve the personal belongings of First World War soldier poet and author Siegfried Sassoon for the nation.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Guinness knocks Dan Brown off the top
Dan Brown's reign at the summit of the UK...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Mainstream launches e-book programme
Edinburgh-based publisher Mainstream has...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Controversial teenage novel wins World Fantasy award
Margo Lanagan's Tender Morsels, described as 'sordid wretchedness' in the Daily Mail, takes joint prize with Jeffrey Ford's The Shadow YearA dark and shocking reworking of the Snow White and Rose Red fairytale by Australian author Margo Lanagan has won... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Scholastic in consultation with staff over distribution changes
Scholastic is in consultation with 31 staff...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Vietnamese refugee wins Australian prime minister's award for fiction
Nam Le adds A$100,000 prize to last year's Dylan Thomas award for story collection The BoatHe came to Australia as a refugee from Vietnam, and now Nam Le's debut collection of short stories has triumphed over the cream of the... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
HarperCollins signs Lauren Laverne
Television presenter and DJ Lauren Laverne is...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Amazon.co.uk reveals top 100 titles for 2009
A title promoting the benefits of growing...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
McIntosh returns to Random House Inc
Madeline McIntosh is to return to Random...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
IPhone challenge to Kindle as book apps surge
The iPhone may take market share from the...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Judicial review may force Wirral publication
A Wirral councillor is threatening to use a...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Big Green Bookshop 'twins' with publisher
North London independent The Big Green...... More...
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
First black female winner for France's top literary prize
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
First black woman wins France's top literary prize
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
French anthropologist Levi-Strauss dead at 100
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2010 longlist includes works by Adiga and Saramago
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Lonely Planet presents top picks in 'Best of Travel 2010'
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Tuesday, 3 November, 2009
Collecting Headlines Funnier Than This
It’s immediately apparent just flipping through “Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude From America’s Finest News Source,” that the art of the fake headline has evolved.... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Books of The Times: The Obama the Campaign Knew
Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe and The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg offer readers a chance to relive the long, winding road to victory.... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
A Southern Mirrored Window
Since it came out in February, “The Help” has been embraced by book clubs and bloggers who can’t stop recommending it to their friends.... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
The Girl in the £20m Inheritance Battle – partner of late novelist Stieg Larsson fights for share of fortune
• Bitter row over legacy of Swedish crime sensation• Trilogy published after author died of heart attackAs the author of three dark and violent crime novels, Stieg Larsson was at home in a dysfunctional landscape of simmering resentments and rancourous... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Critic's view: Stieg Larsson was a very Swedish global phenomenon
Larsson took a genre which has generally sold to men – thrillers turning on technology and conspiracies – and feminised itOn a French beach this summer, almost every sunbather regardless of nationality was reading one of Stieg Larsson's three novels... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Pow! Comic-strip heroes fight against corruption
Anthology aims to make young people angry at the world's abuses of power... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth sequel stresses spiritual argument on climate
Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate CrisisAl's Gore's much-anticipated sequel to An Inconvenent Truth is published today, with... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 2 November, 2009
NDiaye, Novelist, Wins France’s Top Literary Prize
The French writer Marie NDiaye won France’s Prix Goncourt on Monday for “Three Strong Women,” her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Survey on overtime in bookshops
The Bookseller has launched a survey...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Black woman wins Prix Goncourt for the first time
Three Powerful Women, by French-Senegalese author Marie NDiaye, takes France's top literary honourFrench-Senegalese writer Marie NDiaye has become the first black woman to win France's most prestigious literary award, the Prix Goncourt.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Mirchandani buys new Adiga novel
Ravi Mirchandani at Atlantic has bought...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Judges named for 2010 And/Or prize
Broadcaster and novelist Francine Stock and...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Random House signs Forests of Britain
Random House will celebrate the 'history,...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Virgin joins Ebury stable, Sadler leaving
Virgin Books, previously a standalone...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Aravind Adiga heads Impac Dublin prize longlist
The White Tiger wins most nominations, from librarians around the world, for the €100,000 prizeAravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Impac Dublin literary award, but the Indian writer will have... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Taffy Thomas appointed first storytelling laureate
Two-year role will be vehicle to promote the power of stories and the oral traditionThe storyteller Taffy Thomas is creating a yarn of his own to add to the 300 traditional tales which make up his repertoire, the legend of... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Blue Peter shortlist drawn
Nine titles have been shortlisted for the...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Barnesandnoble.com to expand internationally
Giant US bookseller Barnes & Noble is...... More...
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Octopus relocates to central London
Octopus Publishing Group is relocating from...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Middlesex University Press to close
Middlesex University Press is being shut down...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Borders hires new children's buyer
Borders UK has appointed Tristan Chippington...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Books of The Times: Bite-Size Legal Trouble and Suspense
Mr. Grisham took seven of his unused plot ideas and turned each of them into a sharp, lean tale free of subplots and padding.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Monday, 2 November, 2009
Lorca's grave awakens other ghosts
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Monday, 2 November, 2009
Spotlight | Purchase: Meet ‘Olive Kitteridge’
Elizabeth Strout, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Olive Kitteridge,” read from the book at Manhattanville College this week.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
Off the Shelf: An Old Master, Back in Fashion
The life and theories of the famed British economist, John Maynard Keynes, are re-examined in three new books.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
Lionel Davidson, British Writer of Well-Traveled Thrillers, Dies at 87
Mr. Davidson was a noted British thriller writer whose novels brought to life far-flung settings like Prague, Tibet, Israel and Siberia.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
Chick lit offers fully rounded heroines for fully rounded women
US publishing trend, 'bigger chick lit', booms as women respond to more realistic take on weight... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
Second World War blunder that doomed 50,000 British PoWs
British intelligence told prisoners to stay in their camps after Italy surrendered - only for them to be seized by Germans... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
How did America fall in love with Precious?
A film about a fat, abused black teenager which won plaudits at the Sundance and Cannes festivals is tipped for Oscar successClaireece Precious Jones is 16 years old and pregnant with her father's baby. It will be her second child... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
Laureate to help storytelling live happily ever after
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Sunday, 1 November, 2009
