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Evelyn Anthony, author of more than 50 novels, dies aged 92

Oct 24 2018: Evelyn Anthony, who wrote more than 50 novels, including The Tamarind Seed, which was turned into a hit film in 1974, has died aged 92.

She was an unlikely pioneering feminist. The daughter of a wealthy naval hero who married a director of an international mining ...

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How Neil Gaiman's Sandman universe is expanding

Oct 24 2018: The groundbreaking comics author has bequeathed his fantasy universe to a new generation of writers, who reveal their changes to his unconscious world...

When Neil Gaiman announced in March that he would be returning to the world of Sandman, the comic that made his ...

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To Kill a Mockingbird wins PBS's Great American Read

Oct 24 2018: To Kill a Mockingbird has been voted by viewers of PBS's Great American Read as America's #1 best-loved novel.

The show aired its final episode on Monday evening. Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series came in at #2, followed by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, Jane ...

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Todd Bol, founder of the Little Free Library dies aged 62

Oct 19 2018: Todd Bol, founder and executive director of the Little Free Library who "spent much of the last decade working towards his vision of a world where neighbors know each other by name, and everyone has access to books," died October 18. He was 62. LFL noted that he "was ...

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Eleven San Francisco bookstores get cash assistance from city

Oct 18 2018: Nearly a dozen San Francisco bookstores received a special gift from the city this week — $103,000 in total grant money to help them through a time when books can be delivered to one’s door at the click of a mouse.

And that’s exactly why the funding is so important, ...

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Random House and Crown Publishing Groups Merge

Oct 18 2018: The Crown Publishing Group has joined the Random House Publishing Group in a newly-combined division reporting to current Random House president and publisher Gina Centrello, who has been named president and publisher of the new supergroup, Penguin Random House US CEO ...

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Milkman by Anna Burns, wins 2018 Man Booker Prize

Oct 16 2018: Anna Burns won the 2018 Man Booker Prize for her third novel, Milkman. Burns, 56, is the first writer from Northern Ireland to win the Booker. She accepted the prize tonight at a lavish ceremony in London.

Burns’s dark, experimental novel is about a bookish 18-year-...

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Alternative Nobel Prize awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé

Oct 15 2018: The New Academy Prize in Literature 2018 has been awarded to Guadeloupean author Maryse Condé. She is the author of about 20 novels, including I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem; Tales from the Heart: True Stories from My Childhood; Windward Heights; Victoire: My Mother...

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