Sue Grafton not interested in movie versions of her books

Kinsey Millhone is the hero of the mystery books that are written by Sue Grafton. Many people have thought that the character in the book would be able to make a natural transition to Hollywood. However, Grafton, who owns the exclusive rights to the books, has said that she will never let the character appear [...]

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A L Kennedy, The Blue Book

The new book by A L Kennedy is called, The Blue Book. It has a relatively simplistic plot that tells the story of a woman who goes on a cruise with her loving boyfriend. While on the cruise she meets a man she used to be romantically involved with and during the course of the [...]

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Van Gough: The Life

Van Gough was an artist who changed art significantly, he introduced a style of painting that was expressionistic, and did all of this over just a ten-year period. A new book called  Van Gough: The Life has been written by two Pulitzer prize-winning authors.

The book highlights how the famous artist was a more erratic and [...]

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The Marriage Plot

In his latest book Jeffrey Eugenides is trying to emulate the truth seeking in an expansive style that such literary greats as Tolstoy have achieved. The book is called The Marriage Plot, and in the book he writes, “some books are capable of reaching through all of the noise life creates and can grab you [...]

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Various Positions review

Various Positions is a novel that accomplishes something that most cannot. The new novel has been written by Martha Schabas and details the confusion of teenage girls. It also involves ballet as another key theme of the book. The title, of course, refers to the different positions that can be performed in ballet, but it [...]

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The Help a huge worldwide best seller

The Help, is the debut novel, by American writer, Kathryn Stockett. The novel has been a great success, it has remained on the New York Times Bestsellers list for an impressive one hundred weeks after selling more than five million copies. The novel has now been translated in three languages and is available in 35 [...]

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The Paleo Diet book

The Paleo Diet is one that will appeal to a lot of people who have resisted the inducements of many another popular health and weight loss plan.  This one is certainly not a brand new idea; the concept has been around for a long time, and it’s been presented as the way to “go back [...]

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Book review leads to £65,000 compensation

An settlement of £65,000 was awarded to an author for libel damages over a book review for a broadsheet newspaper that was written by a journalist and was considered spiteful. A 2008 review by Lynn Barber of the book Seven Days in the Art World caused Sarah Thornton the author to sue. Mr. Justice Tugendhat [...]

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City of Sin: London and its Vices review

Catharine Arnold’s new book, City of Sin: London and its Vices, studies London’s relationship with vice through the ages. In this third book of her captivating trilogy the history of London vice begins in Roman London where slave girls were exploited to service soldiers while on leave and who were relaxing in the theatres, brothels, [...]

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Martina Cole is back, review of her new book

Christine Booth vows that it will be for better or worse when she married into the Murphy family but it turns out life with the volatile and dangerous clan from the East End is much worse than she or anyone would have imagined leading her to make a once unthinkable decision.

This page-turning, hard-hitting in your [...]

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