Books & Reviews
Sunday, 16 December 2012
TOM CLANCY'S newest book, "Threat Vector", shot straight to the top of the Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday in its opening week.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and...
Sunday, 2 December 2012
IN September, the critic Paul Kincaid reviewed a clutch of science fiction anthologies for the Los Angeles Review of Books. His conclusion that on the evidence of what SF itself selects as its best, "the genres of the fantastic themselves have...
"NOTORIOUS NINETEEN" debuted at the top of the Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide.Hardcover...
WRITING from the multiple vantage points of individuals across Eastern Europe rather than the perspective of governments and political leaders, Anne Applebaum sheds long overdue light on the devastation experienced across the region after World War...
Sunday, 25 November 2012
ROBERT MACFARLANE, an academic at Cambridge University, will chair the judges for the next Man Booker Prize to be held in 2013, organisers said on recently.The choice of a second literary heavyweight in succession to oversee one of the English...
THAT early-onset Alzheimer's of his is going to have to work a lot harder to slow Terry Pratchett (pic) down. This is, astonishingly, the fourth book from the Discworld dynamo in 2012, following hard on the heels of his SF novel The Long Earth, co-...
"THE LAST MAN" soared straight to the top of Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Wednesday in its debut week. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors...
Sunday, 18 November 2012
LIU ZHANGXU could not believe his ears when he was told he could bring the book home from the library without paying any money."You only need to pass the book to another person when you finish reading it," says Xu Dawei, 35, curator of the...
A GRIPPING account of a doomed attempt to climb Mount Everest (pic) has won Britain's leading non-fiction book prize."Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest" by Canadian author Wade Davis was awarded the...
JOHN GRISHAM'S "The Racketeer" retained the top spot on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for the third consecutive week on Thursday.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent...
Sunday, 28 October 2012
THE former black marketeer has read it. So has the beautiful young librarian, and the aging philosophy professor who has spent his life teaching the ruling doctrine of this isolated outpost of totalitarian socialism.At times it seems as if everyone...
IT's not easy to classify Frank Cottrell Boyce. Three months ago in the UK he was the toast of the nation, as one of the key collaborators on Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony, a project which included the Bond/Queen sketch. A few weeks before...
Sunday, 21 October 2012
HE did nothing for African-Americans, left the poor even poorer, his health care reform was a step backwards, and he may yet let another financial disaster erupt on his watch.In short, Barack Obama (pic) squandered the huge wave of goodwill that...
BOOKS, believes Hernando Guanlao, need to live. And they're only alive if they are being read. Thought and effort, time and money went into making them; they will never repay it lying idle in a cabinet or on a shelf. Books need to be set free. So...
FOR the third consecutive week JK Rowling's first adult novel, "The Casual Vacancy", topped the Publishers Weekly's bestseller list. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent...
Sunday, 14 October 2012
BOOKS about war-torn Iraq and post-World War II Eastern Europe, Lyndon Johnson and Mumbai were among 20 finalists announced on Wednesday for the annual National Book Awards, among the most prestigious in US publishing.The National Book Foundation,...
CHILDREN's author whose Meg and Mog series is now in its fifth decade of publication Helen Nicoll, who has died aged 74, was best known as the writer of the Meg and Mog books for children.When we first decided to create a picture book about a witch...
IT'S a widely held view: printed books are doomed; ebooks and self-publishing are the only way forward. But this year's shortlist for the Man Booker prize has revealed how small regional presses are enjoying success.Three of the six books on the...
Sunday, 7 October 2012
IT is estimated that a Jack Reacher novel is sold somewhere in the world roughly every four seconds, which brings the total number sold to somewhere around 60 million plus, depending on how much time has elapsed between my writing this and you...
A COLLECTION of humourist Calvin Trillin's writings called "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff" has won the Thurber Prize for American Humour.The award is named for humorist James Thurber, who was known for the...
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