After an excellent year for Irish crime writing, female authors ought to be the deadlier of the species.
AST year was something of an annus mirabilis for Irish crime writing, with superb novels on offer from John Connolly, Declan Hughes, Gene Kerrigan, Stuart Neville, Adrian McKinty and Brian McGilloway, among others. It was also a year, as… Continue reading
After confirming that author Charles Pellegrino was indeed deceived by one of his sources, Henry Holt announced Monday afternoon that it will correct all future editions of the Last Train from Hiroshima. The deception, first brought to light in the Sunday New York Times, involved claims by Joseph Fucco that he was a… Continue reading
TV and music impresario Simon Cowell and author Sir Terry Pratchett have written to MPs and peers urging them to vote in favour of tougher internet piracy measures included in the digital economy bill as “a matter of urgency”.
Cowell and Pratchett are among five signatories from across the UK’s creative industries to a letter designed to put pressure… Continue reading
Once upon a time, the only books that existed were books copied by hand by monks and scribes and sold to the very rich for the equivalent of $5000 or $6000 a book. Then along came the printing press, and all the monks and scribes had to find another way to earn their bread.
Once upon a time the only books that existed were books on paper made by… Continue reading
Dick Francis, the champion jockey turned best-selling thriller writer, has died at the age of 89, his family said today.
His son, Felix, said he was “devastated” as he paid tribute to his “extraordinary” father.
Francis, from Oxfordshire, the author of 42 novels, was “rightly acclaimed” as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world, his spokesman said.
Francis, who was living on the Cayman Islands in his later years, died… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Globe and Mail scribe Ian Brown is the winner of this year’s Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, which was awarded this afternoon at a gala luncheon in Toronto. The prize, worth a cool $25,000, went to Brown’s memoir The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son (Random House Canada).
Brown beat… Continue reading
The UK online payments market will experience unprecedented growth in 2010, as the total volume of transactions is expected to exceed 20 billion and the size of a typical online payment continues to fall, hitting just £70 by December 2010… Continue reading
At least three major publishers are contributing to relief efforts in Haiti following last week’s devestating earthquake. Random has donated $100,000; Bertelsmann has donated 100,000 euros; and News Corp., which owns HarperCollins, has donated $250,000. And Simon & Schuster is authorizing digital resellers—including Audible.com, Cateeslanguageworld.com, Pimsleuraudio.com, and Pimsleurmethod.com—to give away its Haitian Creole program free, from now until March 31… Continue reading
A university professor’s detailed and lyrical meditations on the ever-changing waters of the Severn estuary tonight won him the UK’s most lucrative poetry prize against tough opposition.
Philip Gross is a well established poet but far from being a household name… Continue reading
HarperCollins Publishers is negotiating with Apple Inc. to make electronic books available for the introduction of a new tablet device from Apple, according to people familiar with the situation, posing a challenge to Amazon.com Inc.
HarperCollins is expected to set the prices of the e-books, which would have added features, with Apple taking a percentage of sales. Details haven’t been ironed out.
It couldn’t be learned whether Apple will sell the HarperCollins… Continue reading | 1 Comment