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Modern history, off the record
News - BooksMonday, 27th October 2008
In a season otherwise light on books on modern history, an undoubted highlight will be the late Hugo Young's The Hugo Young Papers (18 November, £30). The 880-page book...
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New novel from Tom Sharpe
News - BooksFriday, 24th October 2008
Tom Sharpe, 80 this year, has signed up for a new novel with Hutchinson. The Gropes will appear in September 2009. Susan Sandon, MD of Cornerstone (Hutchinson's parent...
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Murdoch biog on course
News - BooksFriday, 24th October 2008
Bodley Head is on course to publish Michael Wolff's biography of Rupert Murdoch ( The Man Who Owns the News ) on 4th December, despite the News Corp tycoon's reported...
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Soros goes PoD
News - BooksMonday, 20th October 2008
PublicAffairs, part of the US-based Perseus Books Group, is using Lightning Source PoD technology to help meet the demand for The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by...
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Obama victory would be 'like winning the Booker'
News - BooksMonday, 20th October 2008
Canongate is expecting a signficant boost for sales of Barack Obama's memoirs Audacity of Hope and Dreams from My Father in the run-up to the US election on 4 November....
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Daisy Frost, a novel question
News - BooksThursday, 16th October 2008
The pseudonymous literary agent Daisy Frost, whose Bookseller gossip column has intrigued and irritated many UK publishers, is at work on a novel. Miss Daisy Frost is...
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