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From a schoolgirl who fights plastic pollution to real-life heroines, 800 Indonesian women are telling stories to change beliefs about girls, the project's organiser said on Tuesday. The Southeast...
Hundreds of Margaret Atwood fans in Britain and the United States are to queue at midnight for the first chance to buy the sequel to her best-selling dystopian novel...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has said that the seed for what has become her latest children's book was planted the day a woman called her a drug addict....
He may be one of the world's most famous musicians, but Paul McCartney is also just a regular grandfather - and that is the experience he draws on for...
ON SELF-HELP BOOKS Some of us love self-help books because they tell us what we want to hear. But they are often far removed from reality. At least I...
Hollywood likes to turn to the book world to look for inspiration for future blockbusters, however, this idea is not always the best one. This week we take a...
Erik Larson's next book tells a story he knows has been heard before. "The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz," which...
Two previous winners, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, were shortlisted on Tuesday for the booker Prize for the best English-language fiction to be awarded in October. Canadian author Atwood...
If you’re sometimes suspicious of novels-in-translation, wondering if you’re getting the voice of the original writer or the translator, then “The Translator’s Bride” may be for you. The comic...
A Roman Catholic school in Tennessee has banished JK Rowling's universally popular series of Harry Potter novels from its library shelves after its pastor took exception to their portrayal...
