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Books in the Media
Literature's Self-implosion We need expert evaluative critics – but our professors keep denying the value of literature itself
Book Design: Covers And Packaging Graphics.com is offering an excerpt of Charlotte Rivers's Book-Art: Innovation in Design, a review of new and interesting book design
Book Lovers Ask, What's Seattle's Secret? The Seattle area is the home of Amazon, Starbucks and Costco, three companies that increasingly influence what America reads
You Brits Just Love Being Miserable Author of an acclaimed new book on global happiness pities the frumpy, grumpy British
Lust In Four Languages Has Critics Railing Compared to Professor Steiner, the autobiography of the busty glamour-model Jordan is a beacon of restraint
Bhutto Book Says She Had Assassins' Names Benazir Bhutto returned home knowing the names and cell phone numbers of her possible assassins
Are You An Infomaniac? Or you could be a slacktivist, or maybe even a maturialist
'If You Don't Scare Anyone, You Haven't Really Succeeded' The first time Roberto Saviano stepped inside a mafia don's house, he urinated in the bath. This raw hatred - and reckless defiance - of the mob drove him to expose them in a bestselling book
A Cheltenham Lady's Guide To Teenage Speak, For All Those Phat-free Mouldies It is reputed to have given the world the word "chav"; now Cheltenham Ladies' College is teaching it to talk teen, thanks to a pupil
Britain's Rudest Road Signs It was clear that, for some reason, people believed that names like Twatt and Shitterton were rude
The Stories Behind Some Of Literature's Best-known Novels Would 'Catch-22' still be a masterpiece if it was called 'Catch-18'?
Setlists Haven't Featured Much In Music Literature - Until Now New pocketbook that features a collection of setlists from seminal gigs
Santa Sebag Montefiore: How Tara's Sister Became The 'Lit Girl' In just seven years, romantic novelist Santa Sebag Montefiore has sold two million books and her ninth saga is under way
Alice Sebold: 'Happiness Is Not A Threat' After the bestselling traumas of Lucky and The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold's new novel goes further into the dark
How To Be A Real Latin Lover - According To A 2,000 Year Old Self-help Book The citizens of 2,000 years ago left a series of DIY handbooks on how to find — and keep — the partner of your dreams
Lynne Truss: Stop The Apostrophe Catastrophe! With her new children's book, grammar queen Lynne Truss hopes to encourage the next generation of punctuation pedants
Kate Mosse Talks About Her Follow-up To Her Huge Hit Labyrinth Don't confuse her with the supermodel, but the bestselling author knows a thing or two about success in her own right
Joe Hill: How I Took A Shine To The Family Business The horror writer Joe Hill tells Craig McLean that despite having Stephen King for a father he lets his pen name do its job
The Man Who Invented The Blockbuster Harold Robbins's racy bestsellers sold sex and glamour to the mass market - and his life was as lurid as his novels
Tears In Heaven Struggling to rebuild his life after decades of addiction, Eric Clapton lost his son Conor in a horrifying freak accident. Here for the first time the rock star tells the full story
Censored Out Actor Neil Pearson's new book focuses on a very British pornographer
Pippi Longstocking: The Swedish Superhero On the centenary of Astrid Lindgren's birth, Pippi Longstocking has been redrawn for a new generation
How To Be A Latin Lover Forget all those modern guides to dating
Gosh! Mystery Of How Blyton Got Her Revenge New biography claims the beloved children's author hid a secret code in her work to make cruel jokes at the expense of her first husband
Cherie Blair Signs Book Deal Cherie Blair has agreed a deal to write an autobiography. |
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