Sunday, 24 November 2024
Sunday, 24 November 2024
In her well-received debut memoir, “A Story Lately Told”, Anjelica Huston described her upbringing in Ireland and London with her famous father, director John Huston, and dancer mother, Enrica...
Read moreAn overdue copy of "Gone with the Wind" has been returned to a high school library in Washington state, 65 years past its due date, and the grateful school said on Tuesday it was waiving late...
Read morePoet Mark Strand, a former poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, has died at the age of 80, according to the Academy of American Poets. Strand died at his daughter's...
Read moreBritish crime writer P.D. James, creator of poetry-writing detective Adam Dalgliesh, has died at the age of 94, her publishers said on Thursday. "We will all miss her," Charles Elliott, her...
Read moreElizabeth Pisani produced her remarkable book "Indonesia, Etc. Exploring the Improbable Nation" after a 13-month journey around the archipelago during which she followed one rule: Just say yes to...
Read more“Vape” has been chosen by Oxford Dictionaries as its 2014 word of the year after use of the term has more than doubled from the previous year, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported. Vape is...
Read moreTwo politically charged novels are among four that have made the shortlist for best novel in this year's Costa Book Awards, the organisers announced yesterday, adding that a record 182 novels had...
Read moreJohn Grisham's latest thriller novel, "Gray Mountain," took the top spot on the US best-seller list yesterday for the third consecutive week. Data from independent and chain bookstores, book...
Read moreMystery writer Dan Brown is encouraging patience over the next chapter of exploits awaiting his globetrotting professor Robert Langdon. Speaking to press at the Sharjah International Book Fair,...
Read moreThe name “Stephen King” is ubiquitous with images of horror, carnage and gore both on the big screen and on good old-fashioned paperback books. Throughout the decades, King has entertained the...
Read moreActor Tom Hanks will publish a book of stories linked to his collection of typewriters, publisher Alfred A. Knopf said on Monday. The book, which will include photographs, is still untitled and...
Read moreThe US Supreme Court refused to hear a petition by the heirs of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on Monday, leaving the adventures of fictional crime solver Sherlock Holmes in the public domain. A...
Read moreNearly eight decades after she became one of the most famous supporting figures in American popular literature, Mammy has become the heroine of her own story in a prequel to “Gone with the...
Read moreIn the West, India's Kama Sutra most often evokes an exotic bible of sexual positions regularly consulted for blush-inducing tips in glossy magazines. However a new exhibition in Paris hopes to...
Read moreBest-selling US author John Grisham apologised on Thursday for comments he made to a British newspaper that not all men who look at child pornography should be sent to prison and that sentences...
Read moreMara Wilson made her breakthrough in Robin Williams childcare comedy “Mrs Doubtfire”, but 2016 will see her published as the author of “(K) for Kid”, a recollection of her time growing up on film...
Read moreAustralian author Richard Flanagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North", set during the building of the Thailand-Burma "Death Railway" in World War Two, won Britain's prestigious 50,000-pound...
Read moreIt only made its debut at the New York Comic Con over the weekend, but “Wytches” is already on its way to cinemas after it was snapped up by production company New Regency of “12 Years a...
Read moreEmbrace your inner snob. Wear red with pink. Eat oysters at home and go to bed before midnight on New Year's Eve. Just some of the advice meted out by four Frenchwomen in a new book on 'how to be...
Read moreThe Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun announced that the "Naruto" manga series will end on November 10. Introduced in Japan in the late 1990s, this young adult manga first came to...
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