Sunday, 24 November 2024
Sunday, 24 November 2024
Author Rick Atkinson, who won a Pulitzer Prize for a best-selling World War Two history, said on Wednesday he was facing a steep learning curve for his next project on the American...
Read morePatrick Modiano (pic), a French historical novelist whose work is largely inspired by Paris under the Nazi occupation, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday. The Swedish Academy said it...
Read moreBestselling British author Ken Follett says it's a "happy coincidence" that his epic new Cold War novel hit bookstores weeks before the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. "It...
Read moreThe early career of fictional super-spy James Bond will be explored in a series of comic books set for 2015. The announcement comes after Dynamite Entertainment reached an agreement with Ian...
Read moreA book that traces the history of slavery over four centuries is among six books shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, one of the world's richest non-fiction awards. Greg...
Read moreAmid fevered speculation over who gets the Nobel literature prize this year, punters and experts are considering language, geography, genre and even age to try and pin down the winner. As...
Read moreComics are serious business in the land of of Tintin and The Smurfs, and nowhere more so than in Europe's biggest and oldest museum dedicated to the art form as the venue celebrates its 25th...
Read moreSome of the world's top authors will thrash out hot political issues at the world's biggest international book fair opening in Germany Tuesday. The writers will brainstorm at the Frankfurt Book...
Read moreHot off the presses onto the shelves of MPH last week was Dr Muhammad Abdul Khalid’s 'The Colour of Inequality', which I thought was quite a clever title putting the right undertone to a heavily...
Read moreA study conducted by the National Library (PNM) found that Malaysians now read an average of 14 books a year, from only two and a half pages about 14 years ago. This is because of the...
Read moreA portion of late science fiction author Ray Bradbury's estate, including George Bernard Shaw's garden spade and artworks both comedic and surreal, sold for US$493,408 (RM1.6 million) in...
Read moreReaders abandoning print newspapers in favour of online news may want to consider the effect it’s having. A study conducted by a researcher at the University of Houston (UH) finds those who read...
Read moreMaybe “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage” came at the right time. Personally, its predecessor, "1Q84", was the weirdest 1184-pager to be published. It was a classic case of...
Read moreJessie Burton thought small when she wrote her debut novel, but much to her surprise it's been sold in 30 countries and, during one heady week in August, shifted more copies than J.K. Rowling's...
Read moreConjuring up the hedonistic world of 1980s New York – the endless parties, reckless spending, casual sex and drugs – was the easiest part of US writer Robert Goolrick's latest novel. The former...
Read moreDean Koontz reminds us that sometimes indulging in antiheroes is a good break from all those brave men and women in leotards and masks. “The City” is about Jonah Kirk, a 57-year-old black...
Read moreUS writers captured only two of the six places on the Man Booker Prize 2014 shortlist announced on Tuesday, easing traditionalists' fears that Americans would dominate the contest now it is open...
Read moreFrom super-long tongues to leaping cats, a host of weird and wacky landmarks have made the cut for 60th anniversary edition of the Guinness World Records book out on Thursday. The new edition...
Read moreThe Arab Spring was powered by its twenty-somethings. The median age of some countries in the Middle East is 24 and many of them are Internet savvy with millions fed through Facebook. It was,...
Read moreAn Australian supermarket which withdrew Roald Dahl's "Revolting Rhymes" because of the word "slut" faced a revolt Friday with some shoppers calling for it to be put back on the shelves. German...
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