The Memory Thief
In Anne Tyler’s 18th novel, a retired teacher, attacked in his new home, becomes fixated on recovering the contents of a few hours of lost memory.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Looking Ahead: Books
Publishers delayed some of their hottest books to the first of the New Year. Here are some of the big titles expected in January.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Books of The Times: This Is English, Rules Are Optional
A professor shows that a language is forever in flux — and that many of the rules grammatical zealots wave about like cudgels are arbitrary and destined to be swept aside as English evolves.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 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. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner4. BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell5. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks2. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham3. THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold4. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson5. ARCTIC DRIFT, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young2. PUSH, by Sapphire3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson4. THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold5. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom3. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others4. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy5. OPEN, by Andre Agassi... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson3. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett5. PIRATE LATITUDES, by Michael Crichton... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
PD James out to scupper BBC and Mark Thompson with maritime metaphor
If Mark Thompson was expecting his encounter with the 89-year-old grande dame of British crime fiction to be plain sailing, those hopes were torpedoed and left dead in the water in under a minute early this morning.PD James, the latest... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Orwell Birthplace to Be Restored
The home in Motihari, a small town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar near the border with Nepal, was where the author lived the first year of his life.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Christmas sales up at indies
Preliminary results from The Bookseller's...... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Book sales suffer marginal decline in 2009
Book sales fell by just half a percent in...... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Prince Philip orders Molly Parkin's light bulb out
The Duke of Edinburgh described his late friend James Robertson Justice as a man who "lived every bit of his life more than to the full and gave his friends endless pleasure and entertainment."... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Prince Philip orders Molly Parkin's light bulb is out
The Duke of Edinburgh described his late friend James Robertson Justice as a man who "lived every bit of his life more than to the full and gave his friends endless pleasure and entertainment."... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Okri Twitter poem to celebrate 2010
Ebury will be releasing a Ben Okri poem on...... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Copy of A Christmas Carol is 'most expensive Dickens work'
A copy of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" has become the most expensive book by the author to have sold at auciton.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Fraser receives New Year CBE
Helen Fraser, former managing director of...... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
BBC director general Mark Thompson thrown by PD James's detective work
Today programme guest editor – and former BBC governor – gives corporation's top manager a thorough grilling... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Carlene Hatcher Polite, Novelist, Dies at 77
Originally trained as a modern dancer, Ms. Polite wrote two novels, which were known for their lush, poetic language and extensive use of monologues.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Books | Reform: Embracing the Marketplace
Two volumes on saving the American university.... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Free books for secondaries to get pupils 'hooked on reading'
Each school in England is to receive 15 books from a specially designed list to try to get more pupils reading as a hobbyMore than 53,000 free books, by authors from Charlotte Brontë to England goalkeeper David James, are to... More...
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Murakami, Obama and self help top Japan bestselling books list
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
First of four 2010 Bolaño titles out in January
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Murakami's '1Q84' is Japan's best-selling book of 2009
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Thursday, 31 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Any Relation to Biography Is Pure Fiction (in a Way)
In this twist on an autobiographical novel, J. M. Coetzee presents notebooks from a deceased version of himself alongside interviews conducted by an imagined, future biographer.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
An Appraisal: Starting With Lines, but Ending With Truth
David Levine’s genius was really that he wasn’t like anybody else.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Seeking a Cure for Optimism
The power of positive thinking is under assault, with a number of writers and researchers questioning the notion that looking on the bright side makes much of a difference.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Dan Brown retains crown following a high street fillip
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol has retained its...... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Comeback Planned for Girls’ Book Series
Scholastic Inc. plans to reissue repackaged versions of the first two volumes of “The Baby-Sitters Club,” in the hopes of igniting enthusiasm in a new generation of readers.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
A New York Get for 'Gatz'
Elevator Repair Service's six-hour show is cleared for landing in New York.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Orwell's birthplace to be saved from decay
After being neglected and forgotten for decades, the birthplace of George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm and 1984, is finally set for a makeover.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Sales bring shopping surge
Post-Christmas reductions have seen a surge...... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Norval White, of AIA Guide, Dies at 83
With the AIA Guide, Mr. White tapped into and fostered a growing national awareness that America had an architectural past worth preserving.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
David Levine, Biting Caricaturist, Dies at 83
Mr. Levine’s astringent drawings became the visual trademark of The New York Review of Books for nearly 50 years.... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
New words of 2009: the year tweetups and snollygosters arrived
Staycation and zombie bankers catching on along with jeggings and simples, say lexicographersA year of snollygosters, jeggings and tweetups marked the end of the 21st century's first decade, according to word enthusiasts who have spent Christmas burrowing into Britain's biggest... More...
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'I, Alex Cross' leads; 'The Lovely Bones' new to the list
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
'The Lost Symbol' tops US best-selling audio books of 2009
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Wednesday, 30 December, 2009
Dissertations on His Dudeness
Where cult films go, academics follow. A new book collects essays on “The Big Lebowski” and its beatific slacker, the Dude.... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Classic Case of Nobility Meeting Reality
David Malouf’s “Ransom” reimagines the tragic story at the heart of “The Iliad.”... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
Television Review | 'Louisa May Alcott': A Writer Whose Life Had as Many Ups and Downs as a Victorian Novel
Anyone who has ever complained about the difficulties of the writing life should watch this biography of the novelist Louisa May Alcott.... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
Books: Resilience, Not Misery, in Coping With Death
The findings of George A. Bonanno, a clinical psychologist who interviewed hundreds of grieving people, were different from those of Freud and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
E-books outsell physical books on Amazon this Christmas
Customers bought more Kindle e-books than...... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
New and Creative Leniency for Overdue Library Books
From negotiable fees to food drives, libraries institute new forms of payment.... More...
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
Guenter Grass's Stasi files to be published
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Tuesday, 29 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Falling, Falling, Falling for the Footlight Parade
In “The Play That Changed My Life,” 21 of America’s best playwrights write knowingly and movingly about the ways that plays and theater gave them a calling.... More...
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Amazon e-book sales overtake print for first time
Online retailer may be on target for sales of 500,000 Kindle e-readers over Christmas... More...
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Awkward Timing for a Book by Woods
Motorists could soon be driving under the influence of Tiger Woods as Hachette Audio in May will release his 2001 best seller as an audio book.... More...
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Love Me Plenty, Presley Pleads
Alanna Nash’s new book is a long look at Elvis Presley’s bizarre history with women.... More...
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Dennis Brutus, South African Poet, Dies at 85
Mr. Brutus was a poet and former political prisoner who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country’s racist system.... More...
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Sue Townsend saved by son's kidney donation
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Monday, 28 December, 2009
Dennis Brutus, Poet, Dies at 85
Mr. Brutus was a poet and former political prisoner who fought apartheid in words and deeds and remained an activist well after the fall of his country’s racist system.... More...
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Sunday, 27 December, 2009
We're loving angels instead: Publishing craze goes celestial
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Sunday, 27 December, 2009
Amazon Christmas day e-book sales beat print sales
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Sunday, 27 December, 2009
Comic-book stories show another Africa
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Sunday, 27 December, 2009
Britain's reviled bankers and MPs pour their hearts out to spoof letter writer
Sir Fred Goodwin, the former banker, is among several unpopular public figures who replied to spoof letters sent under the name of Colin Nugent, a 62-year-old retired teacher from Pinner, Middlesex.... More...
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Saturday, 26 December, 2009
C4 reveals Book Show list
Sarah Waters, Nick Hornby and “The Wire”...... More...
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Saturday, 26 December, 2009
Small Publisher Finds Its Mission in Translation
Open Letter Books is a small, year-old press affiliated with the University of Rochester that publishes nothing but literature in translation.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Arthur Koestler, Man of Darkness
Michael Scammell examines the complex intelligence and shifting allegiances of the author of “Darkness at Noon.”... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Movie Review | 'Sherlock Holmes': The Brawling Supersleuth of 221B Baker Street Socks It to ’Em
There are worse things than loutish, laddish cool, and as a series of poses and stunts, “Sherlock Holmes” is intermittently diverting.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
High & Low Finance: Wall Street, the Depression and the Lords of Finance
These six books — about financial history and how economics went astray — are informative and enjoyable.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Essay: Tintinabulation
Thoughts on a stack of new books about Tintin and his creator, Hergé, a k a Georges Remi.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Crime: Orphans in the Woods
Mystery novels by Sue Grafton, Christopher Fowler, Pierre Magnan and Ken Bruen.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
The God Gene
A Times science writer argues that religion is a machine for manufacturing social solidarity.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
The Body Electric
An inside look at Darpa, the secretive defense agency that’s changing the way we use machines — and the way they use us.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
‘They Planted Hatred in Our Hearts’
Joe Sacco’s account of mass killings of Palestinians in 1956 impressively combines graphic artistry and investigative reporting.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
J. M. Coetzee, a Disembodied Man
In the third volume of his genre-bending autobiography, the Nobel-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee imagines himself as already dead and invents his own biographer.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Out of the Shadows
In this muted and gently probing novel, Charlotte Brontë finds liberation through her dauntless, self-reliant heroine and fictional alter ego, Jane Eyre.... More...
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Weekly book agenda: Comic Market in Tokyo, Costa Awards in London
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Friday, 25 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Interpretation of Language, Lives and Spies
The third and presumably final volume of the Spanish novelist Javier Marías’s ambitious, sprawling philosophical novel.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Deco Mecca
A chronicle of the slummier side of South Florida, with a focus on how South Beach rose from the wreckage that was 1970s-era Miami Beach.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Led Zeppelin, Gods of Rock on the Celestial Staircase
Mick Wall examines the salacious, diabolical career of Led Zeppelin, and the phenomenal music the band made.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Poetry Chronicle
Collections by Katha Pollitt, Philip Levine, Mary Jo Bang and Patty Seyburn.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Dreamy Sales of Jung Book Stir Analysis
“The Red Book” by Carl Jung has surprised booksellers and its publisher with strong sales — despite its $195 price tag.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Troublemaker
Self-invention is a major thread in this biography of the witty, passionate liberal columnist, who died in 2007.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Fraught Expectations
In this novel, a suburban doctor grows dangerously obsessed with his son’s romance.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Beauty, Utility, Eccentricity, Adultery
This history examines the Bauhaus movement through the lives of six of its artists.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Shanghai Express
A nameless hero is sent on a mysterious errand in this wonderfully stylized existential mystery.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Writers who had best sellers in 2009 share their reading-related New Year’s resolutions.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 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. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner4. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON SENSE’, by Glenn Beck5. BLINK, by... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks2. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham3. ARCTIC DRIFT, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler4. THE LOVELY BONES, by Alice Sebold5. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE SHACK, by William P. Young2. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson3. PUSH, by Sapphire4. THE PIANO TEACHER, by Janice Y.K. Lee5. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY, by Mary... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom3. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others4. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson5. OPEN, by Andre Agassi... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson3. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett5. U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Random House UK adds titles to Kindle
Random House UK has added its titles to...... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Le Guin accuses Authors Guild of 'deal with the devil'
Ursula K Le Guin has resigned from the writers' organisation in protest at settlement with Google over digitisationUrsula K Le Guin has accused the Authors Guild of selling authors "down the river" in the Google settlement and has resigned from... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Gray to leave Ingram
James R Gray, chief strategy officer for...... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
MLA to fund review of Northumberland library service
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council...... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Loren Singer, ‘Parallax View’ Author, Dies at 86
Mr. Singer wrote the thriller, “The Parallax View,” which was one of the first novels to offer a paranoid vision of the United States as a country controlled by ruthless technocrats.... More...
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Thursday, 24 December, 2009
Books of The Times: A Hospital How-To Guide That Mother Would Love
Dr. Atul Gawande’s provocative new book explains how a technique used by pilots — the simple checklist — can dramatically reduce patients’ deaths in hospitals.... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Amazon keeps ebook rivals guessing on Kindle sales
Despite bold but vague boasts of record sales, Kindle figures are thought to be lagging behind early years of Apple's iPodIn recent months Amazon has been keen to trumpet "record-breaking" sales of its electronic book reader, the Kindle. But the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Decade in books belongs to JK Rowling, almost literally
Selling more than double the number of books shifted by her closest rival Roger Hargreaves, Harry Potter author dominated the tills throughout the noughtiesNo prizes for guessing which writer takes the top spot on the bestselling authors of the decade... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Christmas too close to call for 'unpredictable' book trade
Christmas 2009 is still impossible to call...... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
End of days for Borders UK
The wider media has marked the demise of...... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
FEP want 'serious discussions' with Google after French fine
The Federation of European Publishers has...... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Union to hold 'People's Inquiry' into libraries
Public sector union UNISON is to hold a...... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Popular fiction eclipses ghost-written celebrity biographies in book charts
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Books of The Times: The Man Behind Boy, Dog and Their Adventures
A biography of Georges Remi, a k a Hergé, the Belgian artist behind the character Tintin.... More...
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Wednesday, 23 December, 2009
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is number one Christmas book
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown's record-breaking mystery thriller, has gained the number one spot in the Christmas book charts.... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Dan Brown is the Christmas number one
Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Bantam Press) is...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
The Top 10 Christmas book chart
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Dan Brown sees off celebs in battle for Christmas books number one
The Lost Symbol gives author second Christmas number one in five years, as celebrity memoirs sinkDan Brown and his debonair professor of "symbology" Robert Langdon have broken the stranglehold that celebrity autobiographies have held over December book sales in recent... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Penguin's audiobooks offered on MP3 from eMusic
Digital music retailer eMusic is to offer...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Beatrix Potter classics get revamped TV animation deal
Chorion's reworked TV cartoon series featuring Peter Rabbit and Jemima Puddle-Duck will hit the screens in 2011Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-Duck and their friends are getting a 21st-century makeover for a new TV animation series in a deal aimed at winning... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Meyer helps Hachette UK pass the 'acid test'
Hachette UK chief executive Tim Hely...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Letterland donates toys to NSPCC
Letterland, publisher of phonics titles for...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Women in Publishing award winners
Chorleywood Literature Festival and Mslexia...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Going, going, gone...bidding war for the novel that’s an auction catalogue
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
A first-timer's tale of unheralded literary success
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Google French fine could be increased, claims lawyer
Google could be fined considerably more on...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Founders attend Books etc 'wake'
As many as 50 former Books etc employees...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Mankell to write Bergman drama series
Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell has been...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Wolf Hall becomes top Booker winner
Thanks to strong sales at independent...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Random profits rise in 2009, but outlook 'uncertain'
Random House managed to grow profits in 2009,...... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Robin Wood, Film Critic Who Wrote on Hitchcock, Dies at 78
Mr. Wood was a film critic who published the first serious work in English on Alfred Hitchcock.... More...
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
2010 book fair highlights: Frankfurt, New York, Guadalajara
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Tuesday, 22 December, 2009
Books of The Times: A Photo of a Smell and Other Scoops
Harold Evans offers an intriguing yet lopsided memoir of a life in the fast-vanishing world of ink-and-paper journalism.... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
MCR rejected Richard Joseph bid for Borders stores
One of the bidders trying to rescue Borders...... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
Harper's Watt steps back to focus on key authors
Publishing director for HarperFiction Susan...... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
E-book app for Hoffman's Penguin debut
Penguin is releasing its first e-book app in...... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
Competitors save 14 Wesley Owen branches
Wesley Owen has confirmed that 14 stores have...... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
MCR fails to agree a buyer for any Borders stores
Borders UK administrator MCR has failed to...... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
Books of The Times: One Man’s Survival Strategy in a Chinese Labor Camp: To Write
Er Tai Gao’s spare, stoical prison memoir of Mao’s China is a valuable contribution to the literature of the horrific 20th century.... More...
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
Books to look for in 2010: Ian McEwan, Yann Martel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Monday, 21 December, 2009
Design: Peter Miles Applies His Quirky, Simple Style to a Range of Platforms
The English graphic designer Peter Miles, now living in New York, has used his spare approach with clients ranging from German arts publishers to indie magazines.... More...
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Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Milorad Pavic, Unorthodox Novelist, Dies at 80
Mr. Pavic was an internationally prominent Serbian writer whose novels upended the traditional relationship between reader and text.... More...
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Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Louis de Bernières and other British writers revive the literary salon
Geoff Dyer and Jake Arnott also among those frequenting authors' evenings in LondonThe literary salon, the 18th-century gathering where intellectual giants would debate and inspire or infuriate each other, has been reborn for the 21st century with new salons appearing... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Google gets digital foothold in France
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Sunday, 20 December, 2009
Wesley Owen stores enter administration
The future of Christian bookshop chain,...... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Any Questions? presenter Jonathan Dimbleby in Muslim censorship row
In what must rank as one of the literary world's most unusual disputes, Index on Censorship, which campaigns for freedom of speech, stands accused of censorship.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Kevin Spacey and SAS author Andy McNab form an unlikely partnership
At first glance, they are unlikely allies: Kevin Spacey, the darling of theatreland, and Andy McNab, the rugged SAS hero turned best-selling author.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Saturday, 19 December, 2009
John Edwin Smith, Philosopher and Author, Dies at 88
The author’s work tackled large questions about the nature of truth from a pragmatic, pluralistic and specifically American perspective.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Bed, Bath and Beyond
An examination of the account books, wallpaper savvy and dirty linen of British households in the 18th century.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Essay: Steal These Books
At independent bookstores, thieves are more likely to be following Abbie Hoffman than the Ten Commandments.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Sugar Ray Robinson, Ultimate Fighter
This life of Sugar Ray Robinson traces his rise at an exuberant moment in African-American culture.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
The Masculine Mystique
Three stories of desire feature several lusty adolescent boys, an aged but eager rancher and Jim Harrison’s best-known character, Brown Dog.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Children’s Bookshelf
More children’s books reviewed.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Fancy Dressing
A book about a girl who tries on her mother’s shoes, and another about the many uses for a hat.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Alarmingly Bright Futures
The stories of television and Day-Glo paint, and a pop-up book that explains the origins of dozens of household objects.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Spin the Bottles
In this whodunit, Peter Mayle ships a sleuth off to France, but wine is clearly the main character.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
The Cute One: Paul McCartney
This biography aims to present Paul McCartney as more artistically and intellectually complex than the sweet and bubbly caricature we have known.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
The Smart One: John Lennon
A haunting, mammoth, terrific biography of John Lennon.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Art Among the Ruins
At once an art appreciation course, a true-crime story and an American history lesson.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight
A witty biography of the manipulative, secretive and obsessive novelist Patricia Highsmith, creator of Tom Ripley, a character who was a version of herself.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
The Wonder Years
Marie Ponsot’s sixth poetry collection is propelled by playful lines and mature perspective.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
After the War, Before the War
An account of Britain in the 1920s and ’30s, when it saw itself as a civilization in crisis.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Bookshelf | Photo Collections: The City in Pictures, and in Lists
“New York Sleeps” and “Only in New York: Photographs From Look Magazine” are worth considering as holiday gifts for lovers of the city.... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
A Night Out With | Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin: Yes, She’ll Hire a Nanny
Hanging out at the Public Theater with Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin, who have written five books with each other, including “The Nanny Diaries.”... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Frankie Boyle lays into celebrity memoirs as his own is a surprise hit
Comedian Frankie Boyle berates publishers for producing 'crap' celebrity memoirs. Meanwhile his own is a bestseller... More...
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
Hard times for the hardback industry
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Saturday, 19 December, 2009
MCR "incorrect" to sell Hachette stock, rules judge
A high court judge has ruled today [18th...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Trade warned on deferring e-books
Deferring publication of e-books could play...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Dubai International Children's Fair cancelled
The financial backer of the Dubai...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
French court finds Google guilty over copyright
A French court has become the first to find...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Reidy: 'We must uphold the value of our content'
Describing the US book market in 2009 as...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Chertsey bookshop to reopen under new owners
The Chertsey Bookshop in Chertsey, Surrey...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Vernon Kay to explore UK for Michael Joseph
Bolton’s most famous export, TV presenter and...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Scholastic takes hit over UK distribution consolidation
Scholastic's international business took at...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Sony lines up publishing partnerships to 'win e-reader war'
Sony is lining up a number of publishing...... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
C. Bryan, 73, ‘Friendly Fire’ Writer, Dies
Mr. Bryan’s 1976 book about the accidental death of a soldier in Vietnam became one of the enduring works of reportage on the Vietnam War.... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Margaret B. Young, Writer of Children’s Books on Blacks, Dies at 88
Mrs. Young, the widow of the civil rights leader Whitney Young Jr., wrote several books for children on the African-American experience.... More...
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
French court orders Google to stop scanning French books
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Weekly book agenda: Comic Market in Tokyo, Costa Awards in London
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Friday, 18 December, 2009
Books of The Times: That Bloody Shower and Its Violent Offspring
The film historian David Thomson makes a powerful — and sometimes surprising — case for the importance of “Psycho” in film and cultural history.... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
Arthur Koestler made the best-seller lists four times before his suicide in 1983.... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks2. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham3. ARCTIC DRIFT, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler4. THE ROAD, by Cormac McCarthy5. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 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. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner4. THE TIPPING POINT, by Malcolm Gladwell5. BLINK, by Malcolm... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson2. PUSH, by Sapphire3. THE SHACK, by William P. Young4. THE PIANO TEACHER, by Janice Y.K. Lee5. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom4. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others5. OPEN, by Andre Agassi... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown2. U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton3. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson4. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Title Deed: How the Book got its Name
Gary Dexter explains the origins of Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Sarah, Duchess of York in court battle to stop Turkey book
When officers from Scotland Yard served a series of legal demands on Sarah, Duchess of York last month at the behest of the authorities in Turkey, where she had exposed the appalling conditions in state-run orphanages, she told friends she... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Big guns lose out but good times for fiction
The economic downturn, the stellar success of...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
'Robust' indies weather decline
The number of independents trading in the...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
MCR removes Hachette stock pending legal action
Borders' administrator MCR is removing all...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Preface presents Fiona Phillips memoir
Preface publisher Trevor Dolby has acquired...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Literary début advances fall as low as £500
Advances for some literary fiction débuts...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Ebury expands crime offer
Ebury Press has bought the rights to eight...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Lonely Planet gives regional guides a make over
Lonely Planet has given its regional guides a...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
HMV weighs up cost of the hub
Waterstone's parent HMV has told retail...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Trade needs to 'speak out' over Amazon power play
"At the end of the day, people need to have...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
MCR in 'last stand' with Hachette UK over Borders debts
Hachette UK is appearing in the high court...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Chinese author takes Google to court
A Chinese author is taking Google to court...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Pullman 'real fight remains to be fought'
Philip Pullman is the latest children's...... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo to become Hollywood film
The best-selling novels of Stieg Larsson, the Swedish crime writer, are to be turned into a Hollywood film franchise.... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
John Lennon's lost six-hour interview
Student's meeting with member of the Beatles in 1968 reveals furious response to claims the group had sold out... More...
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Spain cuts tax on electronic books
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Thursday, 17 December, 2009
Philip Pullman 'disgusted' over claim Catholics torpedoed films
Producers allegedly browbeaten into ditching Golden Compass sequels.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Newly Released Books
Books by Brad Parks, Ken Bruen, Julie Powell, Stan Jones, Katharine Weber and Alexander McCall Smith.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Once More, Revisiting Anne Boleyn Yet Again
A focused, investigative account of the forces that toppled Anne Boleyn from favor and led to her trial and execution.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Enid Blyton joins JK Rowling and Dan Brown in list of decade's biggest selling authors
Her books are supposed to have fallen out of fashion, but Enid Blyton has emerged as one of the best-selling authors of the past decade.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Books on Science: A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
A new book is a tribute to a Microsoft researcher, lost at sea in 2007, who argued that computing was transforming science.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Philip Pullman disappointed over film prospects of His Dark Materials
The author Philip Pullman has expressed his disappointment that the second two novels in his fantasy trilogy have not yet made it to the big screenThe author Philip Pullman has spoken of his disappointment over the failure of Hollywood to... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Atheist author Philip Pullman 'disgusted' over claim Catholics blocked films
Sam Elliott, the American actor, has depressed Philip Pullman, the atheist author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, with his claim that a group of Roman Catholics managed to browbeat Hollywood producers into abandoning plans to film any more... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Continuum 'quite pleased' despite increased losses
Continuum has said it is "quite pleased" with...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Scholastic m.d McQuade leaves, Murray Hill takes over
Scholastic Children's Books managing director...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Anova acquires new children's series
Anova Books has acquired the rights to a new...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Amazon: top 10 best-selling books of the decade
The online retailer Amazon.co.uk has revealed its top 10 highest-selling books of the decade, with Harry Potter and Twilight featuring heavily.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Book discount: Centurion by Simon Scarrow at Tesco
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' - Centurion by Simon Scarrow - for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday, December 17, 2009.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
RH launches free reads on Facebook
Random House has launched a Facebook...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Costa increases prize fund; reveals judges
The Costa Book Awards is to increase its...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Hachette heads to the High Court over Borders debts
Hachette UK has taken the final decision...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Authors Guild condemns "retroactive rights grab" by RH US
The US Authors Guild has rejected Random...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
SoA sets higher benchmark for author royalties
E-book royalties should be "much higher" than...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Authors Guild condemns "retroactive rights grab" by Random House US
The US Authors Guild has rejected Random...... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Milorad Pavic, Serbian Author of Novel Novels, Dies at 80
Mr. Pavic was an internationally prominent Serbian writer whose novels upended the traditional relationship between reader and text.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Chinua Achebe’s Encounters With Many Hearts of Darkness
A new collection of essays from the author of “Things Fall Apart,” about Nigerian politics, language, family and racism.... More...
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'I, Alex Cross' leads; Stieg Larsson title joins the list
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
'The Lost Symbol' tops US best-selling audio books of 2009
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Al Pacino to star in Philip Roth adaptation
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
2010 literary prize season begins with UK's Costa Awards
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Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Stephen Covey's digital rights deal with Amazon startle New York publishers
Online editions seen as threat to backlist cash cow... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Half a Lifetime Spent in Pursuit of Waterbirds
Theodore Cross spent the first half of his life oblivious to birds only to become one of their most ardent photographers and advocates in the second half.... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Borders to close 22nd December unless buyer comes forward
Borders will close its doors for the last...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Book sales edge into the black, but celebs still struggling
Book sales have jumped 11.5% week-on-week, or...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Authors Guild Fights Back on E-Book Rights
The Authors Guild posted a memo to its Web site on Tuesday disputing efforts by Random House to claim e-book rights on old titles published before 1994.... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Canongate and Walker create joint young adult imprint
Independent publisher Canongate has teamed up...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
France to spend €150m on library digitisation project
About €150m of next year's €35bn national...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
S&S reveals details of Kercher book
Simon & Schuster UK has revealed further...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Leak shows Borders administrator may have buyer for 23 stores
Borders administrator MCR is making a...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Random: UK legal context on digital rights 'different'
The Random House Group has said it believes...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Brink to feature as London Book Fair author
South African writer André Brink will appear...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Business author signs exclusive e-rights deal with Amazon
American business author Stephen R Covey has...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Alty appointed new intellectual property c.e.o
The department for business, innovation, and...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
IPAF shortlist announced
The six-strong shortlist for the...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Closure threat to 14 Belfast libraries
As many as 14 public libraries across Greater...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Short story website lets iPod generation download classics
Audio recordings of short stories by European literary heavyweights are now available to download following the launch of a website aimed at introducing the classics to the iPod generation.... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Macgregor leaves Mainstream for HC
Iain MacGregor, associate publisher at...... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works
The announcement of a nearly $1.1 billion digitization project underscored the government’s desire to maintain control over French cultural heritage.... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Top Author Shifts E-Book Rights to Amazon.com
Amazon will have the exclusive e-book rights to two books from Stephen R. Covey, a move that promises to raise the anxiety level among print publishers.... More...
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Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Fiction Trying for Truth in Novel’s View of Dictator
Norberto Fuentes’s fascinating new novel, “The Autobiography of Fidel Castro,” purports to tell the longtime Cuban leader’s story in his own words.... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Bagshawe, James and Flynn longtlisted for RNA prize
Louise Bagshawe, Erica James and Katie Flynn...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Short stories aim to woo the iPod generation
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Authors reaffirm opposition to vetting scheme
Authors remain opposed to the government’s...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Workplace targeted for Six Book Challenge
National charities the Campaign for Learning...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Conan Doyle turns detective for Century
Kate Elton, publisher of Century and Arrow,...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Haddon joins Rowling and Brown as decade's top Dog
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Random House US asserts digital rights to older titles
Random House US has sent a letter to literary...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Random House US attempts digital rights grab
Random House US has sent a letter to literary...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Haddon joins Rowling and Brown as 2009 top Dog
Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Authors now excluded from schools vetting scheme
Authors are to be excluded from the...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Amazon launches Kindle iPhone app
Amazon has made its Kindle e-book reader...... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Still Settling the Score, Even Beyond the Grave
Dominick Dunne, who died on Aug. 26, left behind one last, stinging roman à clef. And he most assuredly used it to settle scores.... More...
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
It's the last chapter for books venture Borders
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
Lewis Carroll, J.K. Rowling editions up for bid December 16
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Monday, 14 December, 2009
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is best-selling novel of the decade
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the best-selling novel by a British writer of the past decade, new figures show.... More...
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Sunday, 13 December, 2009
Shorn of dissent, Britain's high culture is little different from The X Factor
Great writers used to pit themselves against the world. Today their successors fight for a glut of awards, fellowships and festival appearances and the result is creative bankruptcyYou might want to disown the shallow vulgarity of the Christmas season's celebrity-fest,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Sunday, 13 December, 2009
Bible tales retold for secular age
Authors reimagine the nativity story for children to read and enjoyAsk any four-year-old why the shepherds followed that star and the answer is likely to be entertaining. "They brought Jesus food after a fairy came down and said to Mary,... More...
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Sunday, 13 December, 2009
Word For Word: A History of Odes to the Chief
Lincoln was Whitman’s “captain.” Byron lionized Washington. Even Harding lives on in poetry: “He wasn’t a bad egg, / Just weak. He loved women and Ohio.”... More...
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Richard and Judy throw the book at Channel 4
When Channel 4 announced that it was bringing back its Richard & Judy Book Club, but without the couple who had made it such a success, they had not reckoned on two obstacles.... More...
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Legal Battles Over E-Book Rights to Older Books
The ownership of the e-book rights to older titles is a growing source of conflict in the publishing industry.... More...
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Op-Ed Contributor: Catch-2009
On the 10th anniversary of Joseph Heller’s death, an old friend remembers the author’s switchblade-sharp mind and fine-tuned fraud-detector.... More...
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
End of Kirkus Reviews Brings Anguish and Relief
Kirkus churned out nearly 5,000 reliably cantankerous reviews a year, which many librarians and booksellers used when deciding how to stock their shelves.... More...
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Walcott finally wins his poetry professorship
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Authors' word choices create unique 'fingerprints'
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
Solzhenitsyn's widow cuts 'Archipelago' to student size
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Saturday, 12 December, 2009
He Was No Wilsonian
A central aim of this major biography of Woodrow Wilson is to explain why he deserves our national esteem.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Mr Men books make Roger Hargreaves third best selling author of the decade
The enduring appeal of the Mr Men series has helped the late Roger Hargreaves to become the third best-selling author of the decade.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
The Pop Art Era
James Rosenquist writes about growing up to be a painter, while other authors dissect the Warhol phenomenon afresh.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Abigail Adams, Founding Mother
In this account, the self-assertive wife of the second president often emerges as the dominant partner.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
George Packer, Chronicler of the Age of Terror
This book of essays from the Bush-era coheres better than most in the genre because of George Packer’s unusually coherent worldview.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
J.J. Abrams Wants to 'Let the Great World Spin'
J.J. Abrams said he was close to signing a deal with Colum McCann to option the film rights to "Let Great World Spin," winner of the National Book Award for fiction.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
In Defense of Truth
The novelist Louis Begley relates the Dreyfus Affair to our times.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Shaker of Movers
A collection of Herbert Muschamp’s energetic architectural criticism.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Intercontinental Drift
This Mexican novel attempts to encompass the last 50 years of — well, everything.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown3. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson4. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King5. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Nonfiction Chronicle
Books by Michael Goldfarb, Mark Mazower, Malalai Joya and Paul Johnson.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Natalie Portman joins zombies to bring Jane Austen back to life
Jane Austen's novels have survived some unlikely screen adaptations, but Natalie Portman has signed up to star in perhaps the most unusual.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
John Singer Sargent’s Model Children
This “life” of John Singer Sargent’s stirring painting “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” wields a novel’s power.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
John Ashbery, Toying With Words
The master of sinuous syntax has performed surgery in this collection, often bringing his poems into the wry epigrammatic domain of Dickinson.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Crime: Hollywood Knights
Detective novels by Joseph Wambaugh, Charles Finch and Stan Jones, and essays from P. D. James.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Essay: H. W. Fowler, the King of English
Some care about getting English right; others don’t. For those who do, there is Fowler’s “Dictionary of Modern English Usage.”... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Twilight of the Ice Bear
A digest of the history of human-polar bear relations, a pretty shameful record even before global warming.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Administrator uses Borders UK for pottery sale
Borders UK has begun selling its fixtures and...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Grigori Perelman’s Beautiful Mind
A dogged portrait of an eccentric Russian mathematician who solved a famously unsolved problem, then dropped out.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Derek Walcott appointed professor of poetry - at Essex University
Nobel laureate Derek Walcott turns his back on Oxford University to take up a poetry professorship at the University of EssexFollowing the most ferocious scandal the poetry world has experienced for years, during which favourite Derek Walcott withdrew from the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 11 December, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. STONES INTO SCHOOLS, by Greg Mortenson3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom4. OPEN, by Andre Agassi5. TRUE COMPASS, by Edward M. Kennedy... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Books: Revving Up Your Reading for the Off-Season
Recent automotive books of note focus on Paul Newman’s racing career, every Porsche model ever made and a muscle-car builder on Long Island.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Profile's Griffin to retire, Bhaskar, Broccardo join
Kate Griffin, publicity, sales and marketing...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Buzz grows for king of Jordan book
Headline-grabbing revelations about “secret,...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Second LA Quartet to William Heinemann
Wm Heinemann publishing director Jason Arthur...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Little, Brown expands Conquest series
Little, Brown has paid "a substantial...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
OUP buys portrait of Golden Age of Physics
Latha Menon at Oxford University Press has...... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
BBC and British Library to take joint approach to building digital archive
Venture to digitise British Library's archive of more than 150m items plus nearly 1m hours of BBC output... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 11 December, 2009
Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews Close
The Nielsen Company’s plans to sell had been reported for months, but the news that Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Reviews would close at the end of the year was a surprise.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
The Haunts of Miss Highsmith
The biographer Joan Schenkar retraces Patricia Highsmith’s footsteps through Greenwich Village, as it figured in her real life and as it appeared in her fiction.... More...
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Weekly book agenda: Blio unveiled, spotlight on publishing in India
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Friday, 11 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Bookish Cowboy Heads Off to the Corral
Larry McMurtry’s second memoir is slack and distracted — but also exactly the kind of slipshod book I enjoy more than many good books.... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 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. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls5. GLENN BECK’S ‘COMMON... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. BORN OF ICE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon2. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks3. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham4. ARCTIC DRIFT, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler5. 7TH HEAVEN, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. THE SHACK, by William P. Young3. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson4. THE PIANO TEACHER, by Janice Y.K. Lee5. THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN, by Garth Stein... More...
From: NYT > Books
Thursday, 10 December, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
“The Lego Book,” new at No. 10 on the hardcover how-to and advice list, traces the great moments in Lego history.... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
P D James to host "Today"
Crime author P D James is to guest edit BBC...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
DRM has held back e-books
Digital rights management (DRM) has held back...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Concern about London libraries 'cuts’
A group of London librarians have expressed...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
E-book data "poor"
Foyles and Nielsen Book have called for...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Children's authors explore new sales route
Children’s authors are part-funding...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Discount chain works up £3m profit
Discount chain The Works, which plunged into...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Title Deed: How the Book Got its Name
Gary Dexter explains the origins of Jay Anson's The Amityville Horror... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Theo Walcott sold to Random House Children's Books
England winger signs four-book deal to write footballing adventures based on his own experiences as a schoolboyRandom House has jumped the gun on the January transfer window, signing the Arsenal and England winger Theo Walcott for an undisclosed fee on... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Scotland's oldest book goes on display for first time
Scotland's oldest book, a medieval Celtic psalter with vivid illustrations in green, red, purple and gold, will be put on public display today for the first time in 1,000 years.... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Goodwin and Speirs to chair Orange
TV producer and writer Daisy Goodwin is to...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
More US publishers join the Kindle roadblock
HarperCollins is the latest US publisher to...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
RHCB buys Theo Walcott series
Random House Children's Books has acquired a...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Waterstone's says it has sold 350,000 e-books
Waterstone's has revealed it has sold more...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Borders administrator says it is 'dealing' with ROT claims
Borders UK administrator MCR has stressed...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Katine writer Ben Jones wins book prize
Ben Jones' book, Beyond the state in rural Uganda, picks up the Elliott P Skinner award from the American Anthropological AssociationBen Jones, a lecturer in development studies at the University of East Anglia and a regular contributor to the Katine... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Agents welcome Waterstone's seminar
Agents reacted positively this week to a...... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
John Storm Roberts, World-Music Scholar, Dies at 73
Mr. Roberts was an English-born writer, record producer and independent scholar whose work explored the rich ways African and Latin American music influenced the United States.... More...
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Thursday, 10 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Personal Take on Public Projects in Two Devastated Lands
Greg Mortenson’s follow-up to “Three Cups of Tea” further details his efforts to build schools for girls in Afghanistan and Pakistan.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Publishers Delay E-Book Releases
Publishers have been debating the timing of e-books in part as a way to protest the low prices that online retailers are offering on e-book versions of new releases and best sellers.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Oxford Institutes a New Election Process for Its Poetry Post
On Tuesday, Oxford announced that it was rewriting the rules for the election of its Professor of Poetry.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
State of the Art: Not Yet the Season for a Nook
Every one of the Nook’s vaunted distinctions from Amazon’s Kindle comes fraught with disappointing footnotes.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Thomas the Tank Engine attacked for 'conservative political ideology'
Children's favourite Thomas the Tank Engine has been attacked by a Canadian academic for its "conservative political ideology" and failure to adequately represent women.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Tesco book discount offer: The Water Horse by Julia Gregson
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' - The Water Horse by Julia Gregson - for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday, December 10, 2009.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Apex signs Steafel memoir
Apex has bought the rights to the...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Michel in demand at London Evening Standard auction
Bidding is underway for several...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Philip Downer confirms Borders exit
Borders UK chief executive Philip Downer has...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
CUP partners up with Indian sight charity
Cambridge University Press is to provide free...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Judges line up for Man Booker
A former dancer and the literary editor of...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Waterstone's hub ending year 'on a high'
Waterstone's this week moved to reassure...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Hachette begins legal action against Borders administrator MCR
Hachette UK has initiated legal proceedings...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
France set on massive book digitisation project
France is to embark on a mass book...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Government lists BBC Worldwide in 'assets' document
The government has listed BBC Worldwide in a...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
US publishers put up Kindle roadblocks
Simon & Schuster and Hachette USA are to...... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Despite Ray Bradbury’s Efforts, a California Library Closes
A library branch in Ventura, Calif., closed depite the efforts of the author.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Communism’s Path: A Once-Vigorous Idea That Has Lost Its Muscle
A stolid and largely by-the-numbers recitation of communism’s rise and its spread, in various manifestations, across the globe.... More...
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: Newly released 'U is for Undertow' in the lead this week
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Murakami's '1Q84' is Japan's best-selling book of 2009
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Wednesday, 9 December, 2009
Random House Restructures Crown Publishing
Jenny Frost, the president and publisher of Crown, will leave the company.... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Oxford University to reform voting rules for poetry professor post
Oxford University tonight announced changes to the centuries-old tradition of voting for its professor of poetry post, instead introducing processes that bring it something closer to the 21st century.The vote, every five years, has been called a "kamikaze convention", and... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Christmas begins at last as non-fiction starts to climb
Book sales jumped by almost a third last...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Sony to sponsor CrimeFest award
Sony is to sponsor the e-book category prize...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Berger picks up Golden PEN award
John Berger has been presented with the...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Dan Brown: Milan's La Scala opera house could star in next book
Italy's famous La Scala opera house could form the perfect backdrop to Dan Brown's next blockbuster novel, the author has revealed.... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Waterstone's expands e-reader range
Waterstones.com has started selling the...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Hardie joins Chatto
Becky Hardie is joining Chatto & Windus as...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Tonto signs duo for 2010
Tonto Books has signed a duo of deals in two...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Blackwell sells US library supply arm
US distributor Baker & Taylor has acquired...... More...
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Teacher-poet wins BBC short story award
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Federer, Brad Pitt named in new edition of Who's Who
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Still Counting the Ways to Infiltrate Daily Lives
Ken Auletta depicts Google as a brilliant, game-changing behemoth that can be socially inept, and both naïve and arrogant in its dealings with the world.... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Booksellers Feed Imports to Mystery’s Hungry Fans
Booksellers are now importing British editions of “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” the third volume in the best-selling series six months before its publication here.... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Poet Kate Clanchy wins BBC National Short Story award
The poet, writer and relative newcomer to short fiction, Kate Clanchy, has won the £15,000 BBC National Short Story award, beating off competition from veteran authorsThe poet and writer Kate Clanchy has won the BBC National Short Story award with... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Monday, 7 December, 2009
Clanchy clinches short story prize
Kate Clanchy, the author of Antigona and Me...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Former teacher wins £15,000 short story prize
A former teacher has won Britain's foremost short story award with a tale which questions whether it is right to keep terminally ill children alive.... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
High speed broadband for libraries
The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Amazon improves e-reader for visually impaired
Amazon is working on a new audible menu...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Words by the Water returns in 2010
The Cumbrian town of Keswick is to host its...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Branch library closures threatened in Northumberland
A total of 12 public libraries across...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Newsom latest departure from Headline
Peter Newsom, Headline's export sales...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Howard Sounes tells Jon Dennis the story of his book 'Heist'
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Price's adventures down under see backlist bounce
Tabloid darling Katie Price has seen sales of...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Jeffrey Archer lands 'record £18m deal for modern Forsyte Saga'
The best selling novelist has reportedly been paid an £18 million advance to write a Forsyte Saga-style epic.... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Amazon denies plan to open high street stores 'anywhere'
Amazon has denied reports that it has...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Pan Mac confirms Archer deal, but not for '£18m'
Pan Macmillan has confirmed that Jeffrey...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
BA calls for Indy Book Week Award submissions
The Booksellers Association has called for...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
CUP launches online books platform
Cambridge University Press is launching a new...... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Mysteries of Crime Fiction? P. D. James Is on the Case
This book dispels any doubts as to whether the nearly 90-year-old, demure-looking P. D. James has the toughness to dissect the world of crime writing.... More...
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Monday, 7 December, 2009
Poet laureate attacks Afghanistan war in Christmas poem
Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, has launched a scathing attack on MPs "milking" expenses, the conflict in Afghanistan and the state of modern Britain in a grim version of the Christmas song, The Twelve Days of Christmas.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Sunday, 6 December, 2009
Laureate pens a new 12 days of Christmas
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Sunday, 6 December, 2009
Off the Shelf: Economy’s Loss Was One Man’s Gain
A book by Gregory Zuckerman, “The Greatest Trade Ever,” tells how John Paulson bet against the mortgage market and made billions of dollars.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Philip Pullman's blasphemous Jesus novel 'inspired' by Archbishop of Canterbury
Philip Pullman's blasphemous novel 'inspired' by Archbishop of Canterbury... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Rock ’n’ Roll
Gail Buckland wants us to see the work of music photographers accepted as art in its own right.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Essay: When Bad Covers Happen to Good Books
I realized that what all the unread books on my shelves had in common is that they were ugly. Really ugly.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Notable Crime Books of 2009
A look back at the best mysteries reviewed this year... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Visuals: The Art of the Word
Visual books on typefaces, the use of text in art, codes, Japanese puppets and the illustrator Peter de Sève.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Gardening
A stack of books on Japanese gardens, a look at one of England’s most famous estates, reference books and more.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Comics
Graphic novels and comics from Kyle Baker, Gabrielle Bell, Lilli Carré, Seth, Michael Kupperman and others.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
This Cartooned Isle
As this book reveals, the great theme of the British humor magazine Punch was Englishness itself.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
The Atlantic Will Sell Short Stories on Kindle
On Monday, Amazon will begin selling stories, for $3.99 each, that were selected and edited by the staff at The Atlantic and are only available for the Kindle.... More...
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Japanese writer Murakami honoured in Spain
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Saturday, 5 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Wild Things
This compilation of poetry, myth and more will awaken something primal in any human who dips into its pages.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Fans’ Notes
Books on basketball by Bill Simmons and Chris Ballard illustrate a new approach to sportswriting.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Kiss the Cook
Memoirs from Julie Powell and Michelle Maisto probe the connection between food and love.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Cormac McCarthy's Typewriter Brings $254,500 at Auction
The Lettera 32 Olivetti manual machine that the author used to type all his novels sold Friday at Christie's to an unidentified buyer.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Basketball
There aren’t any major revelations in this account of the Bird-Magic era. Still, greatness commands our attention.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Travel Books
This winter’s travel books offer a roughly even mix of vice and virtue, from prostitution and violence to classical antiquities and literary treasures.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Cooking
Big books from big chefs, recipes from Gourmet magazine, France and Italy, and three volumes of baking secrets.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: The City
A tour of New York City’s kaleidoscopic history in photographs and other documents.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: That Old Black Magic
More than 1,200 items from the amazingly prolific Johnny Mercer.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Automobiles
A beautifully illustrated catalog of celebrated automobiles. Just forget about the accompanying text.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Photography
More than 200 arresting photographs convey the complexity and scope of African-American beauty.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Fake News
This spinoff from The Onion captures the trajectory of fake news from gag to serious critique.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Paris
A look at the city’s metamorphoses as recorded by centuries of artists.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: The Man Who Sang, Played and Smiled
The first fully adequate narrative biography of Louis Armstrong.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Jazz
This entertaining history emphasizes the sociological forces that have shaped the music.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Fashion
A catalog of Richard Avedon’s work and a compendium of society photographs from Vogue’s archives.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Diagnosis: Hidden Clues
Would a doctor have looked at Sherlock Holmes and seen a condition to diagnose?... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Hollywood Chronicle
Tony Curtis on Marilyn Monroe; Orson Welles’s daughter on her father; a biography of Clint Eastwood; and a memoir by a celebrity biographer.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Animal Spirits
An animal alphabet in photographs and a book of life-size portraits of 20 animals.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Good Night, Sleep Tight
These three picture books offer a good night’s sleep, some oddball dreams and the makings of a new classic.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: The Dachshund’s Revenge
A wacky adventure of misfit dogs and an orphan girl from the cartoonist behind “Bloom County.”... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Dangerous Beauty
A fantasy novel about a beautiful mind reader whose superpower is a difficult gift.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
BA to rollout IndieBound material in Spring 2010
The Booksellers Association (BA) has revealed...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: Uncommon Attractions
A vivid biography of P. T. Barnum and a picture book about a Parisian mouse circus.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Mark Watson moves to S&S
Comedian Mark Watson has swapped Chatto &...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Children’s Books: When Elephants Dance
A magician makes a comic and sinister mistake in this unsentimental, magical story.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Tiger Woods drives sales of physics book sky-high
A photograph showing a copy of Get A Grip On Physics by John Gribbin on the floor of Tiger Woods's wrecked SUV has seen the book rocket up Amazon's bestseller chartIt's been a terrible week for Tiger Woods, but the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 4 December, 2009
Penguin takes Dick Francis paperback rights
Penguin has acquired the paperback publishing...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Eason booksellers' bonus deferred while business is reviewed
Booksellers at Irish chain Eason will not...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Discounts fail to save black November
Booksellers suffered their second worst month...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Oliver whisks his way to second bestselling author of 2000s
The cooks have defeated the freemasons, as...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Borders' fall to shrink trade by £35m a year
Borders' collapse could lead to more than...... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Don Congdon, Longtime Literary Agent for Ray Bradbury, Dies at 91
Mr. Congdon was a skilled editor credited with being a tough negotiator and keen judge of talent.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: Baseball
A trove of artifacts and photographs from The Library of Congress, home to the world’s largest baseball collection.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: The Illustrator
With these plainspoken, charming “letters,” the renowned illustrator counsels an imaginary pen pal in his trade.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Holiday Books: The Symbologist
A facsimile and translation of the personal volume in which Carl Jung recorded and illuminated his own visions.... More...
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Sales boost for the physics book found in Tiger's car
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Weekly book agenda: 'Nanny Returns,' 'The Happiness Project'
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Friday, 4 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Will the Dragon Swat Down the Eagle?
Martin Jacques argues that China’s rapid growth and sheer size will make it the dominant political and cultural superpower, not just an economic contender.... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
TBR: Inside the List
“Pirate Latitudes,” the posthumous thriller by Michael Crichton, enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 2.... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. DEAR JOHN, by Nicholas Sparks2. LAVENDER MORNING, by Jude Deveraux3. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham4. THE LOST, by J.D. Robb, Patricia Gaffney, Mary Blayney and Ruth Ryan Langan5. CRUEL INTENT, by J.A. Jance... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 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. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls5. I HOPE THEY... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. PUSH, by Sapphire2. THE PIANO TEACHER, by Janice Y.K. Lee3. THE SHACK, by William P. Young4. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson5. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. GOING ROGUE, by Sarah Palin2. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom3. OPEN, by Andre Agassi4. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner5. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance1. I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson2. PIRATE LATITUDES, by Michael Crichton3. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown4. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King5. BREATHLESS, by Dean Koontz... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Mall says sorry to Sarah Palin for foreign reporter 'ban' on book tour
Mall of America in Minneapolis said 'English-only' rule was 'internal miscommunication'She is no longer chief executive of Alaska, but Sarah Palin should still be called "governor". And in English only, please.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Revamp for Vera
Pan Macmillan is to rejacket crime author Ann...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Library subsidy cuts could threaten public access
Librarians are warning that government...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Internet retailers predict Mega Monday
Online booksellers are preparing for “Mega...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Templar reveals new Ology
Templar’s new “Ology” title for April 2010,...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Joe Allston's Literary Diary
Joe Allston's inside view of the book world, with gossip on Borders, celebrity biographies and what Richard and Judy's Amanda Ross is up to next... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Redundancy for Hodder's Jeffreys
Respected Sceptre publicity manager Henry...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
FutureBook: celebs could help make cultural shift over piracy
Collective action, a celebrity figurehead and...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
FutureBook: "People love shelf space"
The digital revolution presents a career...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Tesco book discount offer: Testimony by Anita Shreve
Enjoy our 'Recommended Book of the Week' - Testimony, by Anita Shreve - for only £2.99 in a Tesco store near you from Thursday, December 3, 2009.... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Publishers hopeful over Borders debts
Publishers are hopeful of emerging unscathed...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Age guidance divides trade as first Christmas approaches
Booksellers on both sides of the age guidance...... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Books of The Times: Pick Your Adjective: Talented, Secretive, Perverse
Joan Schenkar’s biograpy of the author Patricia Highsmith takes an unconventional approach to telling the story of an unconventional woman.... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Something to Read
For anyone considering an e-reader purchase this holiday season, here’s a roundup of current and soon-to-be-available devices.... More...
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Neruda: poet, Communist... and seashell collector
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Author Ray Bradbury says Mars is man's destiny
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Diane von Furstenberg shares favorite book on DailyLit, now 100% free
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Thursday, 3 December, 2009
Petina Gappah's An Elegy for Easterly wins Guardian First Book Award 2009
Trade lawyer impresses critics and readers alike with 'disarmingly funny' short stories of ZimbabweA Geneva-based international trade lawyer whose poignant, humane and funny collection of stories about her home country, Zimbabwe, has impressed critics was tonight named winner of the... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Faber author wins Guardian First Book Prize
A "humane and disarmingly funny" collection...... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Enid Blyton on Nintendo DS
Enid Blyton, the children's author, will become available in digital format on the Nintendo DS games console later this week.... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Cherie Blair brings 'new culture' to aspiring businesswomen of India
Tony Blair may not yet have achieved complete success in his mission to bring peace to the Middle East, but his wife, Cherie, is about to take on her own international assignment.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Blogs can boost literacy says NLT
Research by the National Literacy Trust (NLT)...... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
BBC4 to adapt 20th-century novels
BBC4 is to explore love and sexuality in...... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
More Martina for Headline
Headline has signed a new four-book deal with...... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Reece to stand down from Catnip
Andrea Reece is standing down as Catnip’s...... More...
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Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Books of the Year
Barry Humphries, Richard Eyre, PD James, Sadie Jones, Antony Beevor, Marina Lewycka, Sue Perkins, James Naughtie and others choose their favourite reading of 2009... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Philip Pullman creates 'Northern Lights' charity book
Author follows JK Rowling to create charity fund-raiser for Christmas.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Twilight gives new Brontë films wings
Success of the Twilight saga books and films inspire new productions of Wuthering Heights and Jane EyreThe Brontës are back in fashion – with a bit of help from Bella Swan. New films of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre will... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Cormac McCarthy ditches his typewriter
Author parts company with typewriter he has been using for five decades.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Borders administrator says it will recognise retention of title claims
MCR the administrator of Borders has said...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Statutory basis of library service 'outdated', says LGA
Wirral council's leader Steve Foulkes has...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Bookseller Survey: Cheaper e-books needed to drive digital growth
Cheaper e-books and the emergence of an Apple...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
RCW agent Miller turns author for Atlantic
Ravi Mirchandani at Atlantic has bought a...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
WHS chief Kate Swann's earnings dip
W H Smith chief executive Kate Swann had a...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
After five million words, the end of the road for Cormac's typewriter
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Kindle bestsellers: 'I, Alex Cross,' new titles by Crichton, Koontz
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Wednesday, 2 December, 2009
Writers and typewriters: Barnes, Lively, Holroyd and Moggach
Julian BarnesI work on an IBM 196c and own two of them as their breakdown rate is high. Though nowadays I often first-draft by hand, and later type up on the machine. Then hand-correct again and again until the text... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Books of The Times: A Springsteen Band Mate Tells Stories, True or Imagined, Out of E Street
There’s not much that’s positive to say about this memoir from Clarence Clemons, Bruce Springsteen’s colossal saxophone player.... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
A Christmas Rewrite, as Dickens Edits Dickens
Charles Dickens was in need of cash when he cranked out his beloved story "A Christmas Carol" in the six weeks before Christmas 1843. New Yorkers feeling hard times can sympathize. For the first time, they can also inspect his... More...
From: NYT > Books
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Cormac McCarthy to part with beloved typewriter
Veteran novelist to auction treasured portable that he bought in a pawnshop in 1963Hemingway stood before his to hammer out tales of men and bulls who were noble and brave and doomed, EE Cummings used his to innovate and discombobulate,... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Why shouldn't libraries sell books, asks minister
Margaret Hodge raises prospect of libraries expanding role beyond lending books in major reconsideration of policyLibraries risk sleepwalking through the century unless radical ideas are implemented, the arts minister Margaret Hodge claimed today, at the launch of a long-delayed, much-anticipated... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Stephenie Meyer takes bite out of bestseller chart
Book sales grew almost 16% week-on-week, but...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Berg makes Fashion link with OUP
Bloomsbury-owned Berg Publishers has signed...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Spiderwick author to Gollancz
Gollancz, Orion's sci fi and fantasy imprint,...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Ted Hughes should be honoured in Poets' Corner, says Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes should be honoured in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey, the Nobel Prize winning writer Seamus Heaney has said.... More...
From: Telegraph Books
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Margaret Hodge defends late review at library launch
Culture minister Margaret Hodge faced...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Val Hudson to leave Headline
Val Hudson, non-fiction publisher at...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Borders booksellers launch petitions to save shops
More than 1,100 people have joined a "Save...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Crawford wins Saltire Book of the Year
Jonathan Cape author Robert Crawford has...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Amanda Ross unveils new Channel 4 Book Club
"Richard & Judy" producer Cactus TV has...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
H&H bookseller launches Dublin indie
A new independent bookshop has opened in...... More...
From: theBookseller.com
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Cause of Jane Austen's death not universally acknowledged
• New theory points to TB caught from cows• Author's demise at 41 has fascinated expertsIn her beguiling comic plots, Jane Austen often ridicules characters who fuss excessively about the state of their health.... More...
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Debut novelist wins major literary award
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
TB may have killed Jane Austen
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
Nabokov's incomplete work in Russia after New York, London
From: The Independent - News RSS Feed
Tuesday, 1 December, 2009
