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Foyles bucks bad news for booksellers with latest branch at Olympics site
If close observers of the bookselling trade had been asked to pick the likely survivors from among the plethora of small chains that have steadily disappeared from Britain's high streets it is unlikely that Foyles would have been at the top of anyone's lists.
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Orange win makes Obreht the hottest name in fiction
Thursday, 9 June 2011
The first-time novelist Téa Obreht's book The Tiger's Wife, a surreal, seductive meander through recent history in the Balkans, has turned the 25-year-old into the latest literary superstar after she was crowned the youngest winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction yesterday.
Pushy parents can put children off reading for life, says new laureate
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo, one of the most successful recent children's books, marked her appointment as Children's Laureate yesterday with a call to arms against "pushy parents", describing them as "a pain" who take the enjoyment out of reading.
David Cameron warns against Syria UN veto
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
David Cameron today warned Russia and China not to block international moves to condemn the violent suppression of anti-government protests in Syria.
Smiths going digital after Dawson deal
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Smiths News is set to break into the ebook market after it agreed to buy its academic-focused rival Dawson for £20m.
Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson named Children's Laureate
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson has been unveiled as the new Children's Laureate and said she will "relish" the role.
Children's Laureate: Cuts are 'outrageous'
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Kate Youde: In letter to his successor, to be named this week, Anthony Browne warns: 'We'll all pay the price'.
How did they get in? Hay Festival's success spawns its own fringe
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Each May Peter Florence pitches his marquees in a field below the town of Hay-on-Wye on the Welsh-English border, ready to receive 100,000 visitors to his Hay Festival.
Naipaul and Theroux bury the hatchet at Hay
Monday, 30 May 2011
V S Naipaul and Paul Theroux shook hands at the Hay Festival, the scene of their original falling out in 1996.
Pint of bitter and a juicy murder story, please, librarian
Sunday, 29 May 2011
As libraries close, their books may be moved into pubs, shops, and even doctors' surgeries
Chairman Mao may not be the author of his 'Little Red Book'
Saturday, 28 May 2011
Mao Tse-Tung's "Little Red Book" is the closest thing to a bible that Marxist-Leninist, materialist and atheist Chinese society can have.
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