Tony Blair`s memoir excites booksellers

Last Updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 09:46

Tony Blair`s "A Journey" was stirring political passions even before it hits bookstores Wednesday, with excerpts revealing that the former British prime minister has cried for soldiers and civilians killed in Iraq, but still thinks it was right to invade and topple Saddam Hussein.

JK Rowling donates £10m for charity

Last Updated: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 17:51

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has donated 10 million pounds to set up a new clinic to carry out research into multiple sclerosis (MS), the disease which killed her mother. The clinic will be named after Rowling`s mother Anne.

Secret of Agatha Christie’s novel revealed

Last Updated: Monday, August 30, 2010, 21:28

Wikipedia has put an end to the long-standing mystery of whodunit in one of the most famous Agatha Christie novels `The Mousetrap`.

Book unravels ‘click’ factor with strangers

Last Updated: Monday, August 30, 2010, 13:10

New book, ‘Click, The Magic Of Instant Connections’—Rom and Ori Brafman—have studied the science of the ``click`` with strangers.

Britain carried out Cold War assassinations: Le Carre

Last Updated: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 12:17

Britain carried out assassinations during the Cold War, novelist and former secret agent John le Carre told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

Sam Mendes, Spacey reunite for Shakespeare

Last Updated: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 11:28

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey and director Sam Mendes have joined hands for a transatalantic theatre project on Shakespeare`s Richard III.

Five books for a lovely weekend!

Last Updated: Friday, August 27, 2010, 15:59

From lifestyle to business, summit catastrophes to gay love, the book case this weekend is a study in contrasts.

Baldwin writings show timelessness

Last Updated: Friday, August 27, 2010, 09:23

James Baldwin`s passionate hope for a better America, a United States that he can believe in and that believes in a brilliant black person, comes through in each piece of this disparate collection.

Delhi needs leaders at the ground level: Kiran Bedi

Last Updated: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 15:51

India`s first woman Indian Police Service officer and social crusader Kiran Bedi, who is often described as a national role model, says the capital has fallen back on visible leadership at the ground level.

75 years of Penguin that revolutionised publishing

Last Updated: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 12:58

As Penguin Books tells it, the idea of publishing good quality fiction in low-priced paperbacks arose on a railway platform. Waiting at Exeter station after a visit to English detective story writer Agatha Christie, publisher Allen Lane wanted something to read on the train back to London but found only popular magazines and reprints of Victorian novels.

`Super Power?` is No 1 fiction tome

Last Updated: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 11:03

Raghav Bahl`s `Super Power?` topped the non-fiction section in the bestseller list this week while `Secrets and Sins` by Jaishree Misra climbed several notches to the number one spot in the fiction category.

‘Dahanu Road’ is an epic love story

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 18:53

‘Dahanu Road’ by Anosh Irani is an irreverent, epic love story about three generations of the Irani clan, Zoroastrians who fled persecution from Iran to Bombay.

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