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The Gruffalo makes his TV debut

Much-loved children's book The Gruffalo will be brought to the screen this Christmas as an animation.
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Inside Books

Prize writer’s plea

Thursday, 4 June 2009

US author Marilynne Robinson last night called for a “re-orientation” of modern values after winning the 14th Orange Prize for Fiction.
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My poetry’s not pants: Purple Ronnie creator

Saturday, 23 May 2009

Bottom burps, smelly feet and pants may not be the obvious subject matter for a future Poet Laureate — but Purple Ronnie creator Giles Andreae hasn’t given up hope.
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Frank McCourt 'winning cancer battle'

Friday, 22 May 2009

Irish writer Frank McCourt is battling cancer but is winning the fight, his family has said.
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Aaay! It’s Happy Days again as Fonzie drops in

Friday, 22 May 2009

One of television’s coolest characters dropped in to Belfast yesterday to sign copies of his latest children’s book.
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Author Frank McCourt battling cancer

Thursday, 21 May 2009

Pulitzer Prize winning author Frank McCourt is suffering from cancer, his publicist confirmed.
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Exploring Ireland's connection with Celtic Football Club

Thursday, 14 May 2009

Celtic Football Club has a massive support in Ireland north and south, with many fans regularly making the trek to watch their team in Glasgow, but what is the team's connection to the island?
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Bateman book on Richard and Judy list

Monday, 4 May 2009

A book by a Co Down author set in a bookshop in Belfast has bagged one of the book world’s most showbizzy endorsements — a place on Richard and Judy’s Summer Read list.
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First woman Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy

First woman Poet Laureate 'humbled'

Saturday, 2 May 2009

Carol Ann Duffy said she was "honoured and humbled" to be named the new Poet Laureate — the first female laureate in the post’s 341-year history.
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The Ten Best History Books

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Improve your general knowledge with one of these wonderful history books.
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Molly Fox in the hunt for best book by a woman writer

Wednesday, 22 April 2009

A novel that was difficult to finish has turned out to be well worth the effort for an author from Northern Ireland.
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Prince Charles book explores idea of restoring natural balance

Monday, 20 April 2009

The Prince of Wales has written a book called Harmony about how man has become "dangerously disconnected" from nature, his publishers said today.
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J G Ballard dies aged 78

Monday, 20 April 2009

J G Ballard, the award-winning writer best known for his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun, has died at his home in Shepperton, aged 78, after a long illness. He had been unwell "for several years", said his agent, Margaret Hanbury. He had prostate cancer.
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Jade Goody, who died March 22, 2009

Jade Goody’s diary lands in the bookshops

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Jade Goody’s cancer diaries have hit the bookshops nearly a month after the reality TV star died.
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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney: voice of a generation

Tuesday, 14 April 2009

Eevery generation, it seems, has a voice, be it expressed through music, prose or poetry. For many Irish people that voice has belonged for over 40 years to Seamus Heaney.
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Seamus Heaney (left), Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie and Denis Rooney of the International Fund for Ireland at the unveiling earlier this month of a sculpture depicting one of Heaney?s most famous poems 'Digging' in his birthplace of Bellaghy

Seamus Heaney hailed as he hits 70

Monday, 13 April 2009

He looked like an unassuming schoolboy in 1950s Londonderry, but today Seamus Heaney will mark his 70th birthday and a life filled with poetic lyricism.
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Bill Wood's Business - ICP/Steidl
Dapper Bill Wood's business was photography - he ran a studio in Fort Worth for more than 30 years, chronicling the lives of ordinary Texans in impressive detail throughout the Fifties and Sixties. An exquisite period piece that will appeal especially to 'Mad Men' fans. 
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The Ten Best Photography Books

Saturday, 4 April 2009

Get inspired with our choice of photography books.
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Their Finest Hour and a Half

Saturday, 28 March 2009

It’s hard to write amusing fiction about film production; the lassitude of shooting is too familiar, the compromises are too easily parodied.
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Making a Living in the Middle Ages

Saturday, 28 March 2009

A work of medieval economic history may not sound the most riveting read but Dyer’s erudite, sweeping account of Britain’s finances between 850 and 1520 turns out to be endlessly fascinating and often relevant to our own plight. As Dyer remarks, economic history is “the only branch of history which gives pride of place to the whole population”.
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Cold Cream

Saturday, 28 March 2009

Aside from the off-putting title (the author’s eccentric mother used cold cream as a “universal magic salve”), this is pretty much the perfect memoir.
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Downstream

Saturday, 28 March 2009

Finding a trickle of water measuring just “12 inches across” in a field in rural Staffordshire, Tom Fort feels kinship with Speke at Lake Victoria.
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