The celebrains of Somaliland's Hargeisa book festival
17 Jul 2012 07:27:36
It is an unlikely spot for a literary festival, a town of half a million people with no theatre and no cinema. But Hargeisa is carving out a reputation as the Horn of Africa's answer to Hay-on-Wye by attracting readers and writers from around the world to its book fair.
Ensuring that Somaliland's oral tradition endures is one of the motivating factors behind the Hargeisa book fair, the brainchild of Jama Musse Jama, a senior analyst with a computer science company who lives in Pisa, Italy.
The... Read Full Story
Harry Potter actor soon will be a new hero in a new film
17 Jul 2012 07:25:11
Fresh from undeadly success in The Woman in Black, Daniel Radcliffe is to return to fantasy for his next project. Horns, a supernatural thriller directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Mirrors, Piranha 3D), will star Radcliffe as the lead suspect in the rape and murder of his girlfriend.
Based on the novel by Joe Hill, Radcliffe's character, Ig Perrish, wakes up with a bad hangover and a pair of horns sprouting from his head. These appendages have their benefits, as their power drives p... Read Full Story
The main largest publishers and their place in the field
14 Jul 2012 08:08:14
From the million-plus dollars raised for a graphic novel about stick figures to an all-female anthology showcasing the works of women in comics, the crowdfunding website Kickstarter has become one of the biggest graphic novel publishers in the US.
Research by US book industry magazine Publishers Weekly puts Kickstarter – which is set to launch in the UK later this year – in fourth place in a ranking of the US's top five graphic novel publishers over the three-month period from February to April... Read Full Story
How Coldplay connects with comics?
14 Jul 2012 07:55:32
Coldplay will finally explain the meaning of Mylo Xyloto, elaborating their album's fictional story in a series of comic books. Over six issues, debuting at this week's San Diego Comic-Con, co-writer Mark Osborne traces the tale of young Mylo, a hapless "Silencer" fighting a "war against sound and colour".
Osborne, who co-directed the movie Kung-Fu Panda, said he had originally hoped to make a "music-driven animated film" with Coldplay – "a new kind of Yellow Submarine". Instead, Mylo Xyloto an... Read Full Story
The book 'The Amateur' written by Edward Klein became bestseller
13 Jul 2012 10:37:10
Veteran journalist Edward Klein’s blockbuster new exposé on Barack Obama has hit the No. 1 spot on the New York Times best-seller list for the third week in a row.
Klein’s explosive book “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House” skyrocketed to the No. 1 spot on the Times list of hardcover nonfiction works in its first week in publication and has remained there.
“Amateur” is also the top-selling nonfiction work on Amazon.com.
Klein’s book reveals why senior aides to the president have qu... Read Full Story
Ninety Days by Bill Clegg
10 Jul 2012 09:45:27
"Hello. My name is The Publishing Industry and I'm an addict. I can't stop publishing books about addiction. I once even was jonesing so bad I published a book which turned out to be more or less a complete fabrication. You know the one I mean. Anyway, at the moment, I am one day clean. But I don't know how long this can last." (The room breaks out in murmurs of encouragement.)We have now been to so many AA or NA meetings, in the pages of books, that we can already smell the instant coffee, the ... Read Full Story
Famous writter Gabriel García Márquez- about his career and his books
10 Jul 2012 09:43:25
The Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel García Márquez is suffering from senile dementia and can no longer write, his brother has revealed.
Jaime García Márquez told students in Cartagena, Colombia, that his older brother, affectionately know as Gabo, calls him on the telephone to ask basic questions.
"He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," he said.
The 85-year-old Colombian writer won the Nobel prize in 1982 and is best known for novels including ... Read Full Story
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank written by Nathan Englander become the winner of awards
10 Jul 2012 09:42:18
Moving from a peep show to a summer camp for the elderly, from a West Bank settlement to a vodka-soaked Florida get-together, Nathan Englander's What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank has won the American author the €25,000 Frank O'Connor prize. The world's most lucrative award for a collection of short stories, this year the Frank O'Connor pitted Englander against names including Irish author Kevin Barry, acclaimed Israeli writer Etgar Keret and the Booker-shortlisted Sarah Hall. But ... Read Full Story
Reasons why you must read Fifty Shades of Grey!
09 Jul 2012 01:53:14
t's pointless to deny that there's something going on here: EL James has now sold 4 million copies of her Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy via her UK publisher, Random House, to add to the 15 million (it beggars belief) that have been shifted in the US and Canada. In three months. In the UK, it's the fastest-selling book ever in both physical and ebook incarnations. There's just been an extra print run for the UK market, to meet demand: 2.75 million copies. It's the fastest selling adult novel of al... Read Full Story
Annabel Pitcher become the winer of Brandford Boase's awards
09 Jul 2012 01:48:53
Annabel Pitcher's "practically perfect" first book has won the 30-year-old author the Branford Boase award for the most outstanding debut novel for children.
With the eye-catching opening, "My sister Rose lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. Three of her fingers, her right elbow and her kneecap are buried in a graveyard in London," Pitcher's debut My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece has already been shortlisted for the Carnegie medal and the Guardian children's fiction prize. The st... Read Full Story
The winner of Queen of Teen prize
09 Jul 2012 01:45:32
Speaking in advance of Friday's ceremony, held in a pretty-pink tent in Surrey, Johnson said she was "thrilled" to win the award, and that she was looking forward to "bringing some American blood to your royal line"
"It is true we rebelled against the very idea of a crown," she said, "but I am prepared to put that aside and rule with a fair and temperate hand, and not to fire a few triumphant rounds in the air during the ceremony."
The prize aims to celebrate authors who deal with "real-life i... Read Full Story
The Testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers
06 Jul 2012 03:07:35
Rogers raised eyebrows in the sci-fi community when she won this year's Arthur C Clarke Award with her first shot at speculative fiction. But it's based on a premise so terrifyingly plausible you're half-afraid the book might fall into the hands of some ruthless bio-terrorists with the keys to an IVF lab. Set in what feels uncomfortably like the day after tomorrow, the human race faces being wiped out within a generation by a deadly virus that kills women in pregnancy. Sixteen-year-old Jessie is... Read Full Story
