Last Updated: Monday, August 27, 2012, 08:34
Reading is not just another leisurely activity or a way of brushing up your literacy skills and factual knowledge - it acts as a tonic for the brain too.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 26, 2012, 08:40
A biography about late playwright Gore Vidal is set to be released in 2015.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 25, 2012, 12:42
An Oxford University student publication, which was meant to be a light-hearted guide to help working-class boys date ‘posh girls’, has been withdrawn and its publishers forced to apologise after attracting criticism from those who failed to see the funny side.
Last Updated: Friday, August 24, 2012, 09:37
Kerala Finance Minister K.M. Mani Thursday said he had been invited to deliver a lecture in Britain on his book `Theory of the Toiling Mass`.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 23, 2012, 16:39
Author Nina Bawden, who wrote the novel ‘Carrie’s War’ as well as more than 40 other books for children and adults, died at her north London home on Wednesday. She was 87
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 09:33
The world`s heaviest book, ‘This is Mohammed’, is currently on display at a mall in Al Ain, the garden city near Abu Dhabi.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 09:43
The UAE will take part in an international conference on books for young people to be held in London.
Last Updated: Monday, August 20, 2012, 15:24
Actress Pooja Bedi confesses to be a book lover and revealed how a paperback helped in her decision to separate from her husband Farhan Ebrahim Furniturewalla.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 17:14
Actress Preity Zinta, who played a reporter in Farhan Akhtar`s film ‘Lakshya’, says she is coming with a book with fake stories about her.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 19, 2012, 10:01
The bookshelf this weekend is a mix of critically-acclaimed non-fictions and powerful dramas.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 18, 2012, 09:44
It is a pageant of rare Quranic manuscripts that not only provides an insight into the glory and richness of Islam but also sets back the clock of the religion`s advent into Kashmir by almost a century.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 16, 2012, 08:48
Harry Harrison, an American novelist whose science fiction novels achieved cult status in post-Soviet Russia, died Wednesday, his official website reported. He was 87.