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Tony Blair dodges book launch

Tony Blair will be visiting the White House on Wednesday, where he will attend a dinner as well as participate in talks regarding the Middle East. The former prime minister’s launch party that he had scheduled for his memoirs has been delayed.

It seemed that there would be many anti-war protestors at the event after several [...]

Oz Clarke – Wine Expert Writer

Fine wine can be a confusing topic to someone that does not know about the different wine growing regions or the real difference between red and white wines outside of taste. However, with a few tips from Oz Clarke the leading wine expert who has also been a master of the West End stage, you [...]

Edinburgh film and book events merge

Margaret Atwood and Norman Foster are scheduled to appear in a collaboration that will see them at two of the largest festivals in Edinburgh in order to effectively speak to the audience of the international book festival.

In a joint project, which will be the largest joint project that links two of 12 Edinburgh festivals together, [...]

Mark Twain’s biography set to appear after 100 year wait

One complete century after Mark Twain died, one of his wishes while on his deathbed has finally been fulfilled: as an autobiography that is filled with revelations and outspoken dialogue that he spent the last ten years of his life writing is set to be published.

Best known as the creator of Huckleberry Finn and Tom [...]

Academics book reviews row

Professor of history at Birkbeck College, Orlando Figes, and the author of a Stalin book has named his wife as the author of the comments centred on other books by scholars that have been labelled dull and pretentious.

Figes first denied that he knew who the reviewer was that went by the title of ‘Historian’ that [...]

A World Invisible by Joanna O’Neill – A Fantasy Novel

Bracknell author Joanna O’Neill combines fantasy and science in her debut novel, A World Invisible. Published in its second edition by Wooden Hill Press, this gripping story links quantum entanglement theory with a 150-year-old trail from London’s V&A Museum to a hidden world, and has been enthusiastically received by readers from 15 to 75.

Writer and [...]

Hiroshima book removed over possible inaccuracies

The latest work from Charles Pellegrino, Last Train to Hiroshima, has been dropped by Henry Holt and Company, its publisher, due to the fact that some so called facts in the book are now being hotly debated.

After the book first hit shelves in January when it was found that a source that contributed to the [...]

Dark Origins Digi-Novel Launched by Penguin Books

New from Penguin Books is the launch of Anthony E Zuiker’s ‘Dark Origins’ and the ‘Digi-Novel’ to the world of book publishing. The new Level 26 serial killer thriller books are complemented by a comprehensive online and digital component featuring exclusive cinematic content on a dedicated and fully interactive website.

The Level 26 site is an [...]

Dick Francis passes away in the Cayman Islands

Millions of readers and fans are mourning the death of Dick Francis, world famous author and champion jump jockey. He died at his home in the Cayman Islands on February 15th, 2010 at the age of 89.

Dick Francis has written a total of 44 books since his first novel, Dead Cert, was published in [...]

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