Page 12 - Books
British author Jeffrey Archer signs 3-book deal with HarperCollins
British author Jeffrey Archer has left Pan Macmillan and signed a three-book deal with HarperCollins, with the first book to be published this autumn
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John le Carre: The maestro has left the field
If giving pleasure to hundreds of millions can be a yardstick for a worthwhile life, le Carre measured up perfectly
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'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' author John le Carre dies of pneumonia at 89
Born David Cornwall, le Carre was born in England in 1931, and first worked in foreign Intelligence for the British Army while studying foreign languages abroad
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Barack Obama memoir sells record 1.7 million copies in first week
Barack Obama's A Promised Land sold more than 1.7 million copies in North America in its first week, roughly equal to the combined first week sales of memoirs by his two immediate predecessors
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Without festivals
Those of us who look forward to book festivals will no doubt have to accept that this is going to be a lost winter
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Immigrant worlds
If ever there was a book that begs, demands and screams for film adaptation it is American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
Booker Prize: Refreshingly diverse longlist with plenty of new writers
Like all other creative industries, publishing has been hit hard by the worldwide pandemic
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A big history for a long lockdown
Long lockdowns make for long reads and I was lucky to be able to procure this three volume set
Love, loss and pandemics
Cromwell insists the rules of families' self-quarantining apply to everyone
Gains in translation
Before 1914, there was no proper copyright legislation in India
The treasure of comfort reads
The ideal re-reading ritual should be of a book just smart enough to not irritate you, just deep enough to keep you engaged
Period piece pleasures
There are several novelists who have set their detective stories in this period when the freedom movement was taking roots in India
Drinking wine through a straw
Book launches are curious animals, a hybrid between earnest intellectualism and unabashed tamasha
Suvarnabhumi's legacies
It's not often that current news echoes one's reading of events of more than 800 years ago.
Yesterday's page turners
Fashions change, and it's difficult to pinpoint why many critically acclaimed and commercially successful writers fall off the literary map while others soldier on
Every unhappy family…
Summer in Baden-Baden is a reconstruction of the great and enigmatic Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's life based on his second wife Anna's diary
Books for our times
Ms Atwood quotes science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin to remind us that freedom 'is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one'
Audio books: Reinventing the art of story-telling in the time of lockdown
Audio books score over kindle and e-books as they permit passive listening and allow you to soak in the stories even as you multi-task at home
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Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels
It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.
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The adventures of Wyndham and Surrender-not
A few years ago, most pleasingly as it has turned out, have come the historical crime novels situated in India