Rosie Thomas for the second time has been announced the winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year for her book 'Iris & Ruby'. Before she won the same, 22 years back for her novel 'Sunrise'. Other short listed authors included were Judith Lennox for...
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee gives us an insight into the lives of Korean-Americans. And why not, the author has herself immigrated to USA from South Korea when she was 7. The novel will be published in May by Warner Books.
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Brenda Cooper is out with her latest science fiction novel, The Silver Ship and the Sea. And for those of you who are genuinely interested in the future of technologies, the future of humanity and how technologies can be used for the betterment, it is..
The fans of J.R.R. Tolkien queued outside the book shops to buy the special editions of a "new" book by him, 34 years after his death. 'The Children of Hurin' may be the last Tolkien story to be published. The copies of the book were signed by...
The Royal Society's prestigious annual science book prize has short listed six books for the science book prize. The award includes prize money of £10,000. The previous recipients of the award include names like
Bill Bryson, Stephen Hawking and Br
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The well known English poet and journalist James Fenton has been honored with the 2007 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Fenton, 57, is a former professor of poetry at Oxford University. He earned his B.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford in 1970. In...
The orange prize for new writers also includes Clare Allan, an author who made out of a psychiatric hospital. Clare Allan, who had spent almost a decade in the mental health system, short listed for her debut novel 'Poppy Shakespeare' which is based on.
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The long-awaited biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, written and compiled by Carl Bernstein, the investigative reporter of Watergate fame, will be released on June 19. A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is a 650 page book....
David Halberstam, the author who won Pulitzer Prize for his reports on the war was killed in a car crash yesterday. He was 73. Halberstam was a passenger in a car that was broadsided by another vehicle. The accident occurred around 10:30 a.m., in Menlo.
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Lauren Baratz-Logsted has written several novels including How Nancy Drew Saved My Life. She is also the editor of the critically acclaimed This is Chick-Lit, a response to the collection This is NOT Chick-Lit. Lately, we conducted an email interview...
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