The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo tops audiobook chart!
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Audio Book Tops Adult Audio Book List
Stieg Larsson‘s very popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has topped the adult fiction audiobook… Continue reading
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TV launch of Matthew Hayden’s THE COMPLETE MATTHEW HAYDEN COOKBOOK
Australian cricketing icon Matthew Hayden has a brand new food series Matthew Hayden’s Home Ground premiering on The LifeStyle Channel.
Matthew’s personal cookbook The Complete Matthew Hayden Cookbook is filled with a delicious collection of easy recipes inspired by family, friends and travel. Each chapter features… Continue reading
Project Puts 1m Books Online For Blind and Dyslexic
SAN FRANCISCO — Even as audio versions of best-sellers fill store shelves and new technology fuels the popularity of digitized books, the number of titles accessible to people who are blind or dyslexic is minuscule.
A new service being announced Thursday by the nonprofit Internet Archive in San Francisco is trying to change that. The group has hired hundreds of people to scan thousands of books into its digital… Continue reading
Wuthering Heights Sales Quadruple Thanks To Twilight Effect
After 150 years of steady sales, the romance between Heathcliff and Cathy has started flying off the shelves thanks to a generation of teenagers discovering the book through the Twilight saga – a trilogy of books by Stephanie Meyer, which have been turned into hugely popular films, staring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
The Twilight books, which have helped… Continue reading
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol is number one Christmas book
The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s record-breaking mystery thriller, has gained the number one spot in the Christmas book charts.
The long-anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code was the best-selling book for the week ending December 19, and will therefore be in the top spot on Christmas Day.
The thriller, again featuring Harvard symbologist Robert… Continue reading
Spielberg to take War Horse for big-screen gallop
Steven Spielberg has acquired the film rights to Michael Morpurgo’s book about a farmhand’s search for his beloved horse, which has already become a hit play with life-size puppets
War Horse, the hit play which began life as a children’s book, looks set for a gallop on the big screen after Steven Spielberg picked up the film rights… Continue reading
“Non-pretentious” book snares prize
Australian poet Robert Gray has become the first Eastern Suburbs resident to win the Waverley Library Award for his work “The Land I Came Through Last”.
The prize, had over 160 entries from all over Australia vying for the $20,000 prize money. Gray, who has won many awards for his seven poetry books, said the recognition Continue reading
Clive James in the running for the Costa book Award
Australian poet, author and TV personality Clive James is in the running for a prestigious 2009 Costa Book Award.James’ collection of poems, Angels Over Elsinore, is on the shortlist for the poetry prize given as part of the awards.
The book includes reminiscences of the 70-year-old’s Australian childhood, observations on the 21st Century and
Update: First edition “Origin of Species” sells for a small fortune
A recent entry told of a British family’s shock when they discovered a first edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Origin of Species” on a shelf in their guest toilet.
According to Reuters; the book, which had been kept in a bathroom bookcase in England for years, fetched 103,250 pounds ($171,000) at auction on Tuesday, around twice its pre-sale estimate… Continue reading
Major bookstore chain Borders might be in trouble
Borders are holding emergency talks to secure their future.
Store bosses are concerned the firm do not have enough cash to make it through the key Christmas trading season. They are suffering because of rising competition from supermarkets and online book sellers. The group, who also run the Books Etc brand, are said to be in discussions with firms including Waterstone’s parent HMV as fears mount… Continue reading | 2 Comments
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