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New book claims British Army colluded with loyalists
The Irish government is being urged to press Downing Street for answers
following fresh claims of British Army collusion with loyalists during the
70s.
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Barack Obama: The words of a dream
Friday, 22 August 2008
Barack Obama, writer and orator, has deep roots in a tradition of eloquence
that dates back to the age of slavery. As he prepares to accept the
Democratic nomination in Denver next week, Candace Allen traces his literary
heritage of memoir and testimony.
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Should Enid Blyton be hailed as the best writer for children?
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Enid Blyton, the children's author who gave the world the Famous Five and
Malory Towers, has just been voted Britain's best-loved writer in a survey
for the Costa Book Awards.
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Signing off: the weird world of book signings
Thursday, 21 August 2008
To some authors, the book-signing is a curse. What could be more
excruciatingly dull, to the sensitive creative mind, than to sit for hours
in a festival tent or bookshop, inscribing your name on several hundred
copies of your new masterpiece? This isn't a proper display of your writing
talent – a baboon scratching the dirt with a stick could do it just as well.
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New Bond book set in Sixties 'too much of a period piece to be filmed'
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Fans of the recent James Bond book, Devil May Care, thought it would soon be
on the big screen, presumably arriving to the sound of gunshots and a
powerful soul number. It emerged yesterday, however, that the novel was
considered too old-fashioned to film.
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Brian Rowan: How policeman and Provo talked peace
Monday, 18 August 2008
Sinn Fein support for policing was a vital part of the peace process. In his
new book, security writer Brian Rowan reveals what two of the participants
in the talks — top policeman Peter Sheridan and former IRA bomber Gerry
Kelly — felt as they sat across the table from each other for the first time
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Chuck Palahniuk: the reluctant showman
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
His novels are so extreme they make readers faint. But really he's just a shy
romantic, he tells Geoffrey Macnab
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'Next Satanic Verses' is shelved for fear of stirring up Islamic extremists
Saturday, 9 August 2008
A novel about the child bride of the Prophet Mohamed has been withdrawn by
Random House, which said it feared that publication of the book could "incite
acts of violence". Critics, however, have accused the publisher of
abandoning the principle of free speech and caving into pressure from
extreme Islamist elements.
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Sheila O’Flanagan: I’d like to be cremated, with my ashes sent into outer space
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Each time Sheila sees her latest book on the shop shelves she feels proud and
relieved as, she says, she invests so much of her emotions in her work.
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Cherie Blair: 'You can't please people who don't really know you'
Saturday, 2 August 2008
I meet Cherie Blair at an Italian restaurant round the corner from the
family's £3.65m house in Connaught Square, London, just behind Marble Arch.
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JK Rowling to have fairytale book published
Thursday, 31 July 2008
JK Rowling has announced her first book to hit the shelves since Harry Potter's final outing - a series of fairy tales.
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Sony Reader: A real page-turner? No, but it may change the way we read
Thursday, 24 July 2008
An electronic gadget capable of storing hundreds of downloadable "ebooks"
that could do for the written word what the iPod did for music is to be
launched in over 300 stores across Britain.
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Crime fiction: Around the World in 80 sleuths
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Holmes and Watson would be proud. Crime fiction is booming as never before -
and with dozens of new titles translated into English for the first time,
there’s a detective for every holiday destination. Jonathan Gibbs tracks
down 80 of the best sleuths to escape with this summer....
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Signed CS Lewis books sell for £30,000
Monday, 21 July 2008
Three signed first edition copies of books by Belfast-born Chronicles of
Narnia author, CS Lewis, have sold for a total of £30,000 — more than three
times what they were expected to fetch — at an auction.
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Digital Dickens: How Scott Sigler is changing the way we read
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Downloaded any good books lately? Guy Adams meets Scott Sigler, the podcast
king who's changing the way we read
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Spice of Indian life
Thursday, 17 July 2008
Dr Anila Bali (60) has raised twin boys, completed a PhD, become a financial
advisor and has published an Indian cookbook promoting her culture.
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Chuck Palahniuk talks sex dolls, strippers and the one subject he won't write about
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Two minutes into the interview and I've managed to disgust Chuck Palahniuk.
This is no easy thing to do. Fans of his nine novels to date, from the cult
hit Fight Club to his latest provocation, Snuff – the story of a porn queen
named Cassie Wright who sets out to break the world record for serial
fornication by having sex with 600 men in a row – will be aware of his love
for forensic detail, usually biological.
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