Lorna Byrne's memoir has been bought for a six-figure sum by the publishers of The Da Vinci Code, but she doesn't see her powers as unusual, says Peter Stanford
In the fall of 2002, in the company of a dog named Charlie Chaplin and an architect named Michael Meredith, I set out to drive a 1960 Chevy Apache 10 pick-up truck, at 45 mph, from far west Texas to
Humanitarian intervention' has little to show for its brief appearance on the international stage. It arrived too late for Rwanda, gestured helplessly at Bosnia and, at last, in 2003, it was discovered in the arms of Shock and Awe, where
New Labour's exes are a hard-publishing lot. So far we have had diaries from two of its central figures, David Blunkett and Alastair Campbell, and from a spin-doctor hanger-on (Lance Price); a memoir by its most senior diplomat, the former
Netherland' is an ambiguous word. It evokes, of course, the Netherlands inhabited by the Dutch, one of whom, Hans van den Broek, tells this story of a few late years spent in that New World city founded almost four hundred
Thanks to "Entertainment Weekly" for letting us that in tomorrows issue of the magazine a new picture from the "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" movie will appear. The new image shows Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and Prof. Slughorn (Jim Broadbent)
HarperPerennial has pulled off a literary coup: it will publish the first English language edition of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's The First Circle. The controversial novel was published 40 years ago in heavily edited versions because it detailed the life at a
Nicole Richie's roman a clef The Truth About Diamonds is being made into a tv show. The former Simple Life star exclusively tells E! News that a TV show based on her 2005 coming-of-age novel The Truth About Diamonds is
Salman Rushdie's book Midnight's Children has won the "Best of the Booker" prize. The prize was to mark the 40th anniversary of the prestigious book prize."Midnight's Children" won the Booker Prize in 1981, and the Indian-born writer was hot favorite
Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective (Walker Books) has wonthe Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Melodrama, murder, suspense and courtroom drama suffuse the book that has been awarded
