Category Archives: Book News

General books news and new releases

The Help – 2011 forthcoming movies I’m excited about part 2

The Help Release Date: August 12th 2011 I watched the trailer for The Help today [...]

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James Lee Burke – Feast Day of Fools (Hackberry Holland)
June 7, 2011

One of the things I look forward to most is a new James Lee Burke [...]

BBC Year of Books (book to movie and TV)
April 3, 2011

I came across this on the BBC’s website a couple of weeks ago (World Book [...]

The Crimson Petal and the White – new BBC adaptation!
March 25, 2011

I was listening to a BBC radio show the other day and they were talking [...]

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – 2011 forthcoming movies I’m excited about part 1
March 23, 2011

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy Release Date: 16 Sept 2011 This is one of my all [...]

Happy World Book Day!
March 3, 2011

World Book Day celebrates books and reading across the globe and here we are again, [...]

Ten of the best balls in literature
October 22, 2010

John Mullan puts on his dancing shoes

Roxana by [...]

The Weekend by Bernhard Schlink – review
October 22, 2010

Hugo Hamilton admires an excavation of German society [...]

JK Rowling wins Hans Christian Andersen literature award
October 20, 2010

Harry Potter author 'humbled and deeply honoured' by [...]

Peter Jackson to begin filming The Hobbit in 2011
October 18, 2010

Long-awaited prequel to Lord of the Rings finally [...]

Jonathan Franzen meets the Guardian book club
October 18, 2010

Meeting the Guardian's monthly book club at Kings Place in London, the author tells Professor [...]

Stieg Larsson ‘spent year training Eritrean guerrillas’
October 16, 2010

The Swedish crime writer went to Africa to [...]