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MARY Wollstonecraft, Stephen Hawking and Charles Darwin are jostling for the top spot on a line-up of the top 20... Published 15 Oct, 2015 06:20am

THE best-selling title on Amazon in America right now is not Harper Lee’s hugely anticipated second novel, Go Set ... Published 07 Apr, 2015 06:41am

Modern readers are too distracted to appreciate serious literary novels. Updated 18 Jun, 2014 10:23am

A PROFESSOR has written an academic analysis of the Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon, finding that — despite... Published 29 May, 2014 07:12am

FROM the earliest known writing of Charlotte Bronte, a charmingly illustrated short story the Villette author penned... Published 18 May, 2014 06:10am

Mammy, the slave devoted to her mistress Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, is to be given her own back story... Published 03 Apr, 2014 06:52am

london: Kipling scholars are celebrating the publication of lost poems by the author whose exhortations in If to “keep your head when all about you/Are losing theirs and blaming it on you” are regularly voted the nation’s favourite poem Published 26 Feb, 2013 09:03pm

HOURS after America stepped back from the edge of the fiscal cliff, the phrase has been named as one of the worst cases of language abuse of the last year. Published 04 Jan, 2013 03:31am

AN eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week. Published 28 Nov, 2012 12:00am

LONDON: There`ll be no flying lessons, potions or defence-against-the-dark-arts classes, but Harry Potter fans at... Published 21 Aug, 2010 12:00am

LONDON There`ll be no flying lessons, potions or defence-against-the-dark-arts classes, but Harry Potter fans at... Published 21 Aug, 2010 12:00am

FEAR and loathing among the movers and shakers of America`s publishing industry have reached new heights with both... Published 26 Jul, 2010 12:00am

LONDON Winning the Booker prize almost 40 years ago for The Siege of Krishnapur, JG Farrell used his acceptance... Published 21 May, 2010 12:00am

TONY Blair`s memoirs, signed for an estimated GBP5m almost three years ago, will be published in September, Random... Published 06 Mar, 2010 12:00am