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Best-Selling Chick-Lit Author Killed Herself After Marriage Break-Up

Posted at 9:49PM Thursday 04 Feb 2010

Best-selling chick-lit author Susan Morgan killed herself in a hotel room after her husband walked out on her, it has been revealed.

The 52-year-old, who wrote under the pseudonyms Zoe Barnes and Sue Dyson, took an overdose of painkillers while on holiday on the Isle of Man.

American entrepreneur, Etan Ilfeld is purchasing the business in its entirety for an undisclosed sum

The shortlist for regional winners has been unveiled in the race to win the influential 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

New book industry action group formed to co-ordinate book promotions and represent the trade on common issues

First Capital Connect launched a book club and gave away 17,000 samples of its first Book of the Month

One of Scotland's leading authors last night said she was not in favour of the plan to set up a special academy to honour the nation's finest writers

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