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

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

The Stories Of Our Lives
books.guardian.co.uk

Carmen Callil set up Virago to publish books that celebrated women - and dreamt of shelves of green paperbacks all over the world

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

Is The Arab World Ready For A Literary Revolution?
www.independent.co.uk

It's been published in 38 countries, translated into 42 languages, turned into an Oscar-nominated movie – and sold more than 10 million copies. The haunting tale of The Kite Runner has become one of the publishing industry's greatest success stories. Now the search is on for the next big thing to come from the East

'We've Got To Rebuild Our Credit'
arts.guardian.co.uk

The arts council had a shambolic winter. Will its new boss put things right?

Virago Modern Classics Celebrates 30 Years Of Publishing
www.telegraph.co.uk

Who would have thought a series of novels by obscure women writers could have caused such a sensation when it was published in the late 1970s?

The Fantastic Appeal Of Fantasy
www.telegraph.co.uk

The more rational the world gets, the more we demand the irrational in our fiction

Fighting For Free Speech In Turkey
news.bbc.co.uk

It is a very difficult time to be a writer in Turkey

Amis? He Owes It All To Hitchens, Says Critic
www.independent.co.uk

The anti-Amis brigade is suddenly attracting new recruits across the Atlantic

Balding! Portly! American!
books.guardian.co.uk

What's it like to find yourself used as a character in someone else's novel?

Pulp Fact: Books Publishing Gets Greener
ap.google.com

The latest report about the publishing industry doesn't compile sales figures, track the market for fiction or lament the future of reading. It does tell a great deal about books — not what they say, but what they're made of

'Keep Me Out Of Your Novels': Hanif Kureishi's Sister Has Had Enough
www.independent.co.uk

Hanif Kureishi has made a habit of attacking relatives in print – and his latest book is noexception. It's time to stop, says the novelist's outraged sister, Yasmin Kureishi

Mis Lit: Is This The End For The Misery Memoir?
www.telegraph.co.uk

As two 'mis lit' memoirs destined for the bestseller lists are revealed to be works of fiction, Ed West reports on the almighty backlash against a classic of the genre

Hard-Boiled And Old School
www.telegraph.co.uk

Robert B Parker tells how money frees a writer and why his tough-guy hero, Spencer, will never age

Cormac Mccarthy: American Literature's Great Outsider
www.independent.co.uk

Few writers have captured the grandeur and cruelty of the American frontier more vividly than Cormac McCarthy

Philippa Gregory Watches As Her Bestseller 'the Other Boleyn Girl' Gets The Hollywood Treatment
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

History, novels and film - their progenitors and ownership

Tony Parsons: Does His Writing Still Have Emotional Resonance?
www.independent.co.uk

Now a sports-car-driving, leather-jacket-clad, 54-year-old multimillionaire, Tony Parsons is back with his latest Lad Lit weepie, this time set in Shanghai. Can he still work the magic?

A New Band Of Writers
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

The indie musicians who have turned their hands to fiction

Hic Lit!
www.independent.co.uk

Reformed drinkers' true-life tales flood best-seller lists

Rebirth Of A Dark Genius
books.guardian.co.uk

John Updike and Philip Roth we know - but the great forgotten novelist of 20th-century America is Richard Yates

The Difference Between Ghostwriting And Fictional Writing - by Andrew Crofts
www.steffimcbride.com

Andrew Crofts is the ghostwriter behind at least ten Sunday Times chart-topping autobiographies and his novel "The Overnight Fame of Steffi McBride" is due out from Blake Publishing in September. We asked him about the differences between ghostwriting and writing fiction

Ian Fleming: The Man With The Golden Pen
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

Ian Fleming had a brilliant mind, debonair charm and a roving eye. But how much of himself did he put into James Bond?

Joy Of Sex Gets Makeover For Generation That Found Viagra
books.guardian.co.uk

35 years after Dr Alex Comfort introduced the world to the joys of sex, his seminal manual on how to pep up love lives is itself being spiced up to appeal to a 21st-century readership

Books Lost And Found
books.guardian.co.uk

Once dismissed for their bourgeois domesticity, the 20th-century female writers championed by Persephone are now enjoying stealth success

Twelve - Betting On A Dozen Books Each Year
www.npr.org

One US imprint that got its start just last year has already had a string of hits with a philosophy of 'less is more'


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Catch-up Reading Scheme 'success'
news.bbc.co.uk

Struggling young readers make lasting progress on a scheme that offers one-to-one support, a study suggests

Clare Alexander Wins Kim Scott Walwyn Prize
www.booktrade.info

Clare Alexander was last night (Thursday 8 May) awarded the Kim Scott Walwyn Prize, which honours outstanding achievements by women in publishing

Harpercollins' Social Networking Site Launches
www.socialmediaportal.com

HarperCollins' social networking site Authonomy in beta for aspiring authors

Your Reading Records
www.independent.co.uk

In a move that echoes President Bush's post-9/11 Patriot Act, UK police forces are asking librarians and booksellers for the reading records of those they see as suspicious

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

How Do You Get A Debut Novel Published?
www.independent.co.uk

It helps if your surname is Depp

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