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Jul 17 2007: Last week, Britain's Commission for Racial Equality, an official British racism watchdog group, recommended bookshops across the U.K. ban copies of Tintin in the Congo (1931) by Herge following a consumer complaint from David Enright, a human rights lawyer who ...
Jul 16 2007: The London Daily Telegraph reports on the 10 million pound (~$20 million) security operation to ensure that details of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows do not leak ahead of time. In Britain, print workers have been threatened with the sack if they leak any details...
Jul 14 2007: With the frenzy over Harry Potter 7 growing, the media will be vying to be the first to review the book the morning after publication. In an article on the perils of instant reviewing, John Crace offers his tongue in cheek review of the much awaited book: "The book ...
Jul 12 2007: Sebastian Faulks (author of Charlotte Gray, Birdsong etc) has been commissioned by Ian Fleming Publications Ltd to write a James Bond novel. Faulks says, "My novel is meant to stand in the line of Fleming's own books, where the story is everything." With this in mind,...
Jul 11 2007: Novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Doug Marlette died yesterday in a single-car accident in Mississippi at the age of 57, when the car that he was a passenger in struck a tree. Marlette won a Pulitzer in 1988 for his cartoons in the Observer and Atlanta ...
Jul 10 2007: British bookstore chain Waterstone's is attempting to gather a million signatures. The petition reads, "We, the undersigned, petition J.K. Rowling to write more new adventures for Harry Potter and his friends no matter what happens at the end of Harry Potter and the ...
Jul 09 2007: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, who is credited with inventing the modern historical romance novel, died at the age of 68 on July 6 2007 after a long battle with cancer. Woodiwiss broke onto the scene in 1972 with The Flame in the Flower which went on to become a huge bestseller...
Jul 02 2007: Harry Potter fans be warned: An email is doing the rounds purporting to contain a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. It is a a virus. Experts in the field describe the "worm" as an 'old school' virus, in that it is written to give the author a platform to ...
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