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BBC banned Enid Blyton’s work for 30 years

Children's author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because the corporation thought she was a “second-rater” whose work “lacked literary value”.
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Inside Books

£1m for ‘Fritzl’ book

Monday, 16 November 2009

An Irish writer has hit the big time with a novel inspired by the Josef Fritzl case in Austria.
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DUP’s secret plot to oust Ian Paisley

Friday, 6 November 2009

Ian Paisley’s abrupt resignation as First Minister came amid secret DUP plotting to ease him out of office, a controversial new book claimed today.
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 Ian Paisley and   Martin McGuinness  after being sworn in as ministers of the Northern Ireland Assembley, Stormont.  May 8, 2007.

Did this picture really end Ian Paisley’s reign?

Friday, 6 November 2009

The Belfast Telegraph’s David Gordon on the tumultuous events that saw Ian Paisley lose the leadership of the DUP and, overleaf, an exclusive extract from his new book
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From left, actors Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle attend the IFC and BAFTA premiere of

Palin set for Belfast book-signing

Thursday, 5 November 2009

Monty Python star Michael Palin has a record that will never be broken to boast about when he drops in on Belfast tomorrow.
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Vanishing Ireland by James Fennell and Turtle Bunbury

Portrait of a lost age

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

The 2,500-acre island of Inishmore emerges from the upper reaches of Lough Erne.
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Irish author's incredible link to her 'witch' subject

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

It sounds like a spooky Halloween story but the author of a book about a medieval Irish witch has discovered an incredible coincidence linking her to her subject.
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Quartet of Irish writers on prestigious prize list

Monday, 2 November 2009

Four Irish writers have made the longlist for the world's most valuable literary prize for a single work of fiction.
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Family denies murdered son has links to the IRA

Monday, 26 October 2009

The family of Wayne Doherty, who was gunned down earlier this year, have said that their son wasn't connected to the Provisional IRA, amid claims that Dublin's latest killing was revenge for his death.

 Eamon de Valera

Eamon de Valera 'was a British spy'

Monday, 26 October 2009

A new book to be published next month makes the shocking claim that Eamon de Valera, the founding father of the Irish Republic, was under the control of the British.
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Three more of Cecelia Ahern’s novels set for Hollywood

Friday, 16 October 2009

Author Cecelia Ahern is set for a Hollywood take-over, with three more of her best-selling novels to hit the big screen.
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Plaque unveiled at home of local author Sam Hanna Bell

Thursday, 15 October 2009

A plaque was unveiled today commemorating the centenary of the birth of local author Sam Hanna Bell.
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Cecelia’s doing it by the book

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Chick lit author Cecelia Ahern will have books and babies on her mind when she comes to Belfast tomorrow.
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Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen's ancestors hail from Ireland

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

Bruce Springsteen's theme song may be "Born In The USA" but he's really an Irishman.
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Bookies’ favourite wins the Booker

Wednesday, 7 October 2009

Bookies' favourite Hilary Mantel scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction last night for her “demanding” novel about Henry VIII's adviser Thomas Cromwell.
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Queen Elizabeth:Coronation 1953/Ulster Celebrations. Beechill, Lisburn. 30/5/1953

The Republic of Ireland's secret love affair with Queen Elizabeth

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

It was the summer of 1953 and I was nine. I was living with my uncle and aunt in Sandymount, that pleasing Dublin suburb which seemed to feature as many Protestants as Catholics, genially neighbourly. On this particular evening in mid-summer my uncle and aunt were preparing to go out to some special event.
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Bank clerk who penned hit novels

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

Born into a farming family in Ballyclare in 1860, Archibald McIlroy went on to become an internationally celebrated novelist.
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Bestseller by an Ulster writer lost on the Lusitania resurfaces

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

A first edition novel by an Ulster author who went down with the Lusitania in wartime 1915 is catching the excited eyes of antique book enthusiasts.
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Richard Dawkins: I've got the evidence to convince unbelievers that Darwin was right

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

With his latest book, creationist-basher Richard Dawkins believes he has amassed all the evidence he could ever need to convince unbelievers that Darwin was right. Now he just has to get them to read it...
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Princess Diana

French president's passionate affair with Diana - fact or fiction?

Tuesday, 22 September 2009

It is the tale of a secret love between a dashing French president and an attractive yet desperately unhappy princess who happens to hail from Wales.
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Cover of The Lost Symbol (UK version)

Why Dan Brown's latest novel The Lost Symbol is guaranteed to be a success

Monday, 21 September 2009

Dan Brown's release is the latest in an impressive line of 'event' book launches that the publishing industry runs like military campaigns. Danuta Kean discovers how to market a guaranteed blockbuster
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