When two Italian authors claimed to have proof that Pope Innocent XI financed the Protestant invasion of England, it was a sensation. But have they fallen victim to an unholy alliance between politicians and the Church?

Harry Who? Meet The New J.K. Rowling
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Stephenie Meyer, a teetotal Mormon mother of three, has sold seven million novels about high school vampires and knocked Harry Potter off the No1 bestseller spot in the US

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Why Are So Many Political Memoirs Published, And Does Anyone Read Them?
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Poor old Gordon Brown, as if he hasn't got enough on the his plate, is facing an onslaught from three different sets of memoirs

Word Of Mouth Or Word Of Pen...Has The Internet Killed The Book Review?
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Twenty years ago the power of the book review was the difference between a best-seller and a place in the obscurity bin with a sale sticker slapped across the front

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Michael De Larrabeiti
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Creator of the Borribles

Donald James Wheal 1931-2008
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Donald Wheal, better known to fiction fans by his pen name Donald James, was a prolific book and TV writer whose career stretched for over fifty years

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Do Fictional Characters Have To Be Good?
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A novel is not a public information film. If it were, every time a character picked up a cigarette, the author would be obliged to show them later dying of a smoking-related illness...

A Book Publisher's Manifesto - Part iii
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And whilst the edges of the book become more porous, the concept of a 'book as unit' slowly disappears further into history

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Books in the Media

Literature's Self-implosion
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We need expert evaluative critics – but our professors keep denying the value of literature itself

Lust In Four Languages Has Critics Railing
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Compared to Professor Steiner, the autobiography of the busty glamour-model Jordan is a beacon of restraint

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Nothing To Be Frightened Of By Julian Barnes
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Julian Barnes's all too commonplace book

Caesar: A Life In Western Culture By Maria Wyke
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There are many good things in this book. The trouble is that there are too many: the reader is hustled from incident to incident, personality to personality, with little or no space for analysis.

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