Monday, 19th January 2009
Penguin has announced the opening of nominations for the Lesley Pearse Women of Courage Award, which will be presented for the third time this year. The Award, inspired by...
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Friday, 16th January 2009
Profile has commissioned a starry lineup of authors to contribute to Ox-Tales , four volumes of stories in aid of Oxfam. The four volumes will appear on 2 July, and will...
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Thursday, 15th January 2009
It's a great pity that none of publishing's great and good fetched up at the Wellcome Collection yesterday (Wednesday) to hear Dr Jane Davis, founder of the Reader...
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Thursday, 15th January 2009
Quercus has reason to celebrate this week - with Cava perhaps, rather than Krug - as The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson saw off competition from the likes...
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Tuesday, 13th January 2009
Victorian Farm , a new BBC 2 reality series, has boosted sales of a long out-of-print farming manual, The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens. Originally published in 1844,...
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Tuesday, 13th January 2009
The critically acclaimed and award-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire is on course to give a big boost to Vikas Swarup's Q&A , the novel on which it is based. The film took...
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