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David Cameron has voiced a chapter of Herman Melville's classic novel for The Moby-Dick Big Read

PM's Moby-Dick reading goes live

A reading by the Prime Minister that aims to introduce the 161-year-old novel Moby-Dick to a new generation goes live to the world on Monday.

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Rock star, sex god, rebel, cad: the many faces of Jagger

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Among the big names signed up by America's magazines to cover the 1972 Rolling Stones tour was Truman Capote, waspish author of Breakfast At Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. They didn't hit it off.
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100 reasons why fans will love Ahern's latest novel too

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Many critics who doled out scathing reviews of Cecelia Ahern's debut novel PS, I Love You back in 2004 assumed she would be a one-hit wonder.
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giggles, gaffes and growing pains

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Miranda Hart sighs with mock horror as she recalls a particularly traumatic incident from her childhood.
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Author mum wins six-figure book deal

Thursday, 11 October 2012

A mother-of-three hailed as one of the most refreshing new voices in the world of fiction has signed a major book deal with publishers in Ireland and Britain
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Bret Easton Ellis fumes after Fifty Shades Of Grey film goes to British writer

Wednesday, 10 October 2012

If the film of Fifty Shades Of Grey proves as heated as the battle over who gets to write the adaptation then a box office bonanza is assured.
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Moriarty and Keyes show there can be more than one queen

Sunday, 7 October 2012

Five years ago I wrote that Sinead Moriarty, with her natural heart-warming ability to apply a light touch to dark subjects, was a worthy competitor for Marian Keyes' crown.
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looking back as

Sunday, 7 October 2012

The art of living is to die all the time," says Rupert Everett. The actor is in deep and profound mode, which is appropriate for the snug hotel library we find ourselves in.
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'Less than third' read to children

Friday, 5 October 2012

Less than a third of UK parents read to their children every day, according to a survey.

DJs pledge support for Eason ‘Get Into Reading’ campaign

Thursday, 4 October 2012

Belfast DJ’s Pete Snodden and Connor Philips were joined by award-winning Belfast author Derek Keilty as they pledged their support for the Eason ‘Get Into Reading’ campaign which aims to highlight the importance of reading, especially with young children.
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Light in darkness as O'Connor returns to short stories

Sunday, 30 September 2012

One of the better 1970s Hollywood directors, George Roy Hill, who made Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, once said humour was the natural voice of despair.
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Hitch's one last raging blast against the dying of the light

Sunday, 30 September 2012

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life after

Sunday, 30 September 2012

On page 20 of The Casual Vacancy, an adolescent boy has to clutch his bag close to his body on the morning journey to school "to conceal the embarrassment brought on by the heavy vibration of the bus".
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Chick lit queen beats ‘mummy porn’ madame in books battle

Friday, 28 September 2012

It's mummy porn versus chick lit. Irish novelist Marian Keyes has struck a blow against the incredible might of the Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy by helping topple it from the top of the book charts.
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JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: Irvine Welsh meets Joanna Trollope – but it all ends Hogwartsly ever after

Thursday, 27 September 2012

On page 20 of The Casual Vacancy, an adolescent boy has to clutch his bag close to his body on the morning journey to school "to conceal the erection brought on by the heavy vibration of the bus".
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Van Morrison World Exclusive: In his most revealing interview ever the legend opens his heart to John Bennett

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

He is arguably our greatest musical superstar with a career spanning five decades and acclaimed as a major influence by many of the world's leading pop performers.
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JK Rowling drops a few hints over new novel

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

As details of JK Rowling's first novel aimed at adults have begun to leak, a clearer picture has emerged of the most anticipated book of the year and the millionaire author who fiercely guards her privacy.
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Brought to book, GAA's fall-out with Irish president Douglas Hyde

Tuesday, 25 September 2012

When the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, attended a soccer match in November 1938 the GAA was so furious that he had broken Rule 27 that he was removed as patron of the organisation and shunned.
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growing olddisgracefully

Sunday, 23 September 2012

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A sense of foreboding pervades surprise Booker nominee

Sunday, 23 September 2012

A debut novel from a high-achieving independent publisher, The Lighthouse has surprised some observers with its place on the Man Booker Prize shortlist. Disquieting, deceptive, crafted with a sly and measured expertise, Alison Moore's story could certainly deliver a masterclass in slow-burn storytelling to those splashier literary celebs who take more pains over a pyrotechnic paragraph than a watertight plot. But it may also feed a long-standing Booker quarrel: the one that sets so-called 'literary' against 'genre' fiction.
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tears, tabloids

Sunday, 16 September 2012

Denise Welch, former Corrie star and Celebrity Big Brother winner, knows that her escapades of the past have made her a prime tabloid target.
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