Worship of Sachin Tendulkar will cross a new boundary with a special edition of his autobiography made in part with the cricketer’s blood.
Winning the Booker prize almost 40 years ago for <em>The Siege of Krishnapur</em>, JG Farrell used his acceptance speech to denounce capitalism.
It’s not quite at Harry Potter levels, but Laura Bush’s memoir, <em>Spoken from the Heart</em>, has sold around 150 000 copies in its first week.
A new project is hoping to take the "one book, one city" initiative a step further and get the whole world reading the same novel.
Thousands of writers have opted out of Google’s controversial plan to digitise million of books. Alison Flood reports
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/ 27 November 2009
The story of the seduction of a lesbian by an ageing actor has won novelist Philip Roth a place on the shortlist for the bad sex in fiction awards.
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/ 30 October 2009
Gabriel Gárcia Márquez’s seminal novel, <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, is the book that has most shaped world literature.
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/ 14 October 2009
Although the three calculations jotted on the back of a piece of paper do not look like much, the neat rows of black figures offer a brutal precis.
Three hundred years ago Samuel Johnson declared that "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money". Irish novelist Colm Toibin afrees.
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/ 29 October 2008
A sequel to the novel co-authored by Bram Stoker’s great-grand-nephew will see vampire hunters under attack from the undead once again.