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Saul Bellow Dies.

Apr 06 2005: Saul Bellow died this week, aged 89, at his home in Brookline, Mass. According to his attorney and longtime friend Walter Pozen, his health had been failing for sometime but he was mentally sharp to the end. Bellow won the National Book Award three times for The ...

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Thomas the Tank Engine turns 60

Apr 06 2005: Thomas the Tank Engine and friends are celebrating their 60th year in print. Wilbert Awdry first thought up the stories to entertain his son, Christopher, in 1942 when he was three years old and in bed with measles. They were first published in the UK in 1945. In ...

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Da Vinci Code Mega-Bestseller

Mar 16 2005: The Da Vinci Code has now spent 100 weeks on Publishers Weekly's bestseller lists and has sold 10 million copies (in the USA) after 82 trips to the printer).

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Fox to run Stacked

Mar 16 2005: Fox-TV just announced that it has ordered six episodes of a new sitcom called Stacked, starring Pamela Anderson as a bookstore employee who is trying to change her life and break her habit of falling for the wrong guys. It will co-star Christopher ...

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Lalita Tademy to write new book

Mar 16 2005: Lalita Tademy (author of Cane River) has signed a deal for a new book to be published in 2006 - another family saga titled Red River.

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Listening Library turns Golden

Mar 16 2005: April 2005 marks the golden anniversary of Listening Library, founded by former teacher, Anthony Ditlow, in 1955.  The first recording was Around The World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.  Listening Library were one of the first companies to ...

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New Book from Jared Diamond

Mar 16 2005: Jared Diamond's next book (following Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel) is to be called, The World Until Yesterday: A History of Pre-History.  It will look at the period when humans were hunter-gatherers with little or no social ...

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Adult authors writing for children

Mar 02 2005: The next time you read a book by one of your favorite authors, perhaps your son or daughter will be reading the same author right alongside you, because 2005 sees a veritable flood of established authors of adult fiction writing for children; some for the ...

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