Sunday, 24 November 2024
Sunday, 24 November 2024
Comics writer Mark Millar is unveiling a new comic, "Empress", with Marvel's Icon Comics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The story focuses on a galactic dictator's wife, Emporia, who...
Read moreThe American director will team up with journalist Kristine McKenna to produce an autobiographical study of his life and work. David Lynch will be working with McKenna to publish a part-memoir,...
Read moreVisitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair are greeted by images of aromatic spices, mouth-watering desserts and beaming chefs as cookbooks, once a niche segment, take the publishing world by...
Read moreWith the Frankfurt Book Fair at the halfway point, we look at a few of the titles that are causing a stir. EO Chirovichi, "The Book of Mirrors" Perhaps the biggest Frankfurt buzz has been...
Read moreThis week, three major memoirs have been announced that have got the worlds of music, art and literature talking. Phil Collins, "warts and all" In Phil Collins's 40-year career thus far, he...
Read moreDavid Lagercrantz has another two Millennium novels in the pipeline, his Swedish publisher said Wednesday, two months after his first sequel to Stieg Larsson's best-selling crime trilogy hit the...
Read moreAsterix and his friend Obelix are once again poised to set the Roman empire on fire with the global release of a new opus that sees them team up with a journalist modelled on Julian...
Read moreLittle-known Indonesian writers will take centre stage at the world's largest book fair this week, led by trailblazing women tackling taboos in their conservative homeland, from historic...
Read moreJamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for best novel on yesterday for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob...
Read morePhotographer, writer and photo editor Rachel Hulin is behind "Hey Harry Hey Matilda", a novel currently unfolding, post by post, on social network Instagram. Twitter has been used on several...
Read moreThe Frankfurt Book Fair kicks off on October 14 and will play host to some of the hottest book deals of the year. Among the titles getting early buzz, including some that have already made a...
Read moreMedical graphic novels – that is, comics about people going through illnesses, or by medical professionals offering insights into their fields – appear to be a growing market, with a number of...
Read moreOn Thursday, Apple iBooks began carrying enhanced e-book versions of the Harry Potter series featuring animated illustrations. With a new hardcover illustrated edition also out this week and a...
Read moreThe third and final novel in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy is coming on June 7, 2016, his publisher has confirmed. In "End of Watch", Hodges's nemesis Brady Hartsfield has been in a coma...
Read moreBritish singer PJ Harvey released her first book of poetry on her 46th birthday on Friday – based on journeys to Afghanistan, Kosovo and the United States. The book, entitled "The Hollow of the...
Read moreThe world of crime fiction lost one of its greatest authors this week, Swedish author Henning Mankell, writer of the adventures of police investigator Kurt Wallander. A review of the best-known...
Read moreAuthor Salman Rushdie will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Frankfurt International Book Fair (October 14-18), which will feature a larger and more international culinary section than ever...
Read moreRevered for her influence on punk rock, Patti Smith proved herself to be a literary heavyweight as well with her 2010 memoir, "Just Kids", which won the National Book Award for...
Read moreSwedish writer Henning Mankell, author of the Inspector Wallander novels, has died at the age of 67, his publisher said today. The novelist had been suffering from cancer. Mankell gained a...
Read moreThis year's Nobel Prize in Literature will be announced on Thursday at 1100 GMT (7pm Malaysian time), the Swedish Academy which awards the prize said on Monday. The date of the announcement is...
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