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HMV Group's H2 Sales Top Hopes
www.tradingmarkets.com

HMV Group Plc, the music, DVD, games and books retailer, has reported better than expected second half sales growth

Speculation Over Rebuck US Move
www.publishingnews.co.uk

Will Gail Rebuck be stepping into Olson's shoes?

Book Firm Splits From National Publishing Body In Funds Row
www.theherald.co.uk

One of Scotland's biggest book companies has split from the nation's main publishing body, questioning its existence and describing its funding by the arts council as a 'disgrace'

Endless Buys The Works
www.retail-week.com

Beleaguered discount bookseller The Works is understood to have been bought by private equity company Endless


Feature Items

'My Son, The Bastard'
books.guardian.co.uk

Michel Houellebecq's mother, foul-mouthed Lucie Ceccaldi, 83, grants her first British interview

Living In Poverty, The Man Who 'Found' Hitler's Diaries
www.independent.co.uk

A quarter of a century ago, a German reporter called Gerd Heidemann shocked the world when he claimed he had unearthed the diaries of Adolf Hitler

Opinion

Word Of Mouth Or Word Of Pen...Has The Internet Killed The Book Review?
www.cnpublishing.co.uk

Twenty years ago the power of the book review was the difference between a best-seller and a place in the obscurity bin with a sale sticker slapped across the front

The Most Potent Weapon Wielded By The Empires Of Murdoch And China
www.guardian.co.uk

A riveting account of two of the world's most powerful forces has been ignored - blame anticipatory compliance

Obituaries

Elaine Dundy
www.telegraph.co.uk

Novelist who wrote The Dud Avocado in a vain attempt to save her marriage to Kenneth Tynan

Michael De Larrabeiti
www.telegraph.co.uk

Writer whose Borrible Trilogy about a mutant tribe of child runaways delighted children but shocked their parents

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Blogable Posts

Portrait Of Boris As An Artist
blogs.guardian.co.uk

Johnson's books don't give too many clues as to how he'll govern, apart from showing he's capable of serious lapses of judgment

iRex To Launch New Ebook Reader
bookseller-association.blogspot.com

Special edition aimed at the book market

Books in the Media

Literature's Self-implosion
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

We need expert evaluative critics – but our professors keep denying the value of literature itself

Lust In Four Languages Has Critics Railing
books.guardian.co.uk

Compared to Professor Steiner, the autobiography of the busty glamour-model Jordan is a beacon of restraint

Latest Reviews

Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes
www.telegraph.co.uk

Julian Barnes's all too commonplace book

Caesar: A Life In Western Culture By Maria Wyke
www.independent.co.uk

There are many good things in this book. The trouble is that there are too many: the reader is hustled from incident to incident, personality to personality, with little or no space for analysis.