Ways
to get
the latest
news
to get
the latest
news
Books
NEW YORK, Feb 22 — The movie studio that controls the rights to “The Godfather” has sued the estate of its creator Mario Puzo, accusing his heirs of wrongfully authorising new book sequels to the fictional mafia family’s story.Paramount Pictures studio, in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Feb 17, accused the estate of Puzo, ... Read More
A customer relaxing in a book cafe in Japan. — Pic by Kenny Mah Read More
A treat for the bookworm in Japan
By Kenny Mah
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 21 — Imagine yourself sitting in a quiet café somewhere, sipping on a nice cup of coffee or tea, slowly turning the pages of an engaging book, soft music playing ... Read More
Amanda Knox signs book deal with Harper Collins
NEW YORK, Feb 17 — Amanda Knox, the American former college student cleared of murder in October by an Italian court, has sold her memoir to HarperCollins, a spokeswoman for the ... Read More
US comic wins Japan international manga award
TOKYO, Feb 16 — American comic book “I Kill Giants” has won the top prize in the Japanese government-sponsored annual international award for manga, the foreign ministry said.The ... Read More
Novelists open new chapter for booming China film industry
HONG KONG, Feb 14 — Acclaimed Chinese novelist Yan Geling has become accustomed to reaching a wide audience both at home and abroad.But nothing could have prepared her for the ... Read More
110-year-old Sudan bookshop struggles on
KHARTOUM, Feb 12 – It’s as if the dust-caked volumes have been sitting on the shelves of Sudan Bookshop for the past half century since some of them were published.Three weeks ... Read More
US columnist, author Jeffrey Zaslow dies in car crash
DETROIT, Feb 11 — Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of the best-seller “The Last Lecture” and an award-winning Wall Street Journal columnist, was killed yesterday in a car crash in ... Read More
‘Home Front’ debuts at top of US Bestsellers List
NEW YORK, Feb 10 — “Home Front” soared straight to the spot of the Publishers Weekly best-sellers list yesterday.The list is compiled from data from independent and chain ... Read More
Prince Charles leads Dickens anniversary celebrations
LONDON, Feb 7 — Prince Charles leads global celebrations today marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of English literature’s most revered novelists ... Read More
Book details JFK affair with White House teen intern
NEW YORK, Feb 7 — John F. Kennedy carried on an 18-month-long affair with a teenaged White House intern, according to a new book published this week by a 69-year-old grandmother ... Read More
More Articles
- Britain marks Charles Dickens bicentenary
- Fidel Castro presents his memoirs: ‘Time Guerrilla’
- Gourmet chocolate maker teams up with writer Nicholas Sparks in love story contest
- Travel Postcard: 48 Hours in Dickensian London
- Restored Magna Carta to go on display in Washington
- Tom Stoppard, beneficiary of the subconscious
- Cookbook offers taste of Mandela’s table
- Royal party and read-a-thon mark big day for Charles Dickens
- Nobel-winning Polish poet Szymborska dies aged 88
- US author traces Rimbaud’s mysterious Java journey
- The fall and rise of a North Korean Everyman
- ‘Mein Kampf’ excerpts struck from German magazine
- Novel ‘Pure’ wins Costa prize amid ‘bitter dissent’
- Oprah tells India love of books central to her life
- Newbery and Caldecott winners for kids’ books top charts
- Rushdie to appear by video at Indian book festival
- Oprah Winfrey charms ‘chaotic’ India at book event
- Queen’s ‘little bubble’ keeps friends at bay, says biographer
- No flowers again on birthday of late Edgar Allan Poe
- First edition Audubon book sells for US$7.9m
- Best-selling Indian author says banned writers not ‘heroes’
- Rushdie India speech cancelled amid death threats
- Rushdie cancels India visit after death threat warning
- Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn’t
- Uproar over first German post-war reprint of ‘Mein Kampf’
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Geneva celebrates unloved son
- Thriller set against the ‘War on Terror’
- Lil Wayne to publish prison memoir
- Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ coming back to German shops
- Book Talk: Maid’s tale of Catherine the Great
- Bill Cosby muses on life in latest book
- ‘Private: #1 Suspect’ tops US bestsellers list
- Newly bequeathed letter shows Beethoven’s misery
- India dominates Man Asian book prize shortlist
- DeLillo, Millhauser, Pearlman get Story Prize nods
- Elton John to publish book ‘Love is the Cure’
- South African store closes as books gather dust
- Koontz moves into top spot of US best-sellers list
- Michelle Obama sparred with White House advisors
- Book Talk: Quest for the story of an enigmatic model and lover
- James Franco sells novel exclusively to Amazon
- Czech dissident writer Josef Skvorecky dies
- Perjuangan bangsa boleh menjadi ‘asabiyah’ yang ditentang Islam, kata Dr Asri
- PAS tolak Israel, terserah kepada Anwar untuk terima atau tidak, kata Nik Aziz
- Di Sabah, isu pendatang asing tanpa izin penentu masa depan
- Mesyuarat Agung Perwakilan Khas KPF dibatal
- Anwar patut berdebat dengan Ibrahim Ali bukan Najib, kata Perkasa
WP Cumulus Flash tag cloud by Roy Tanck, adapted for EE by Oliver Heine, requires Flash Player 9 or better.