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Bibliography RSS FeedsTop scarers - From Jim Thompson to Daphne du Maurier, the author and comedian singles out stories that live up to their genre and genuinely do give readers sleepless nightsAs well as making becoming a household name for his work as a writer and actor in comedy shows such as The Fast Show, Charlie Higson has had a parallel and these days just as stellar career as a writer. After winning acclaim for early, blackly comic crime novel...Feed Source: www.guardian.co.uk A life in books: Tim Waterstone - "I am an enemy of Waterstone's being destroyed. I am not in any way an enemy of Waterstone's being properly led by people who know what they're doing"Tim Waterstone is explaining to me why he has a problem with the word entrepreneur, a distaste that I've seen ascribed to him on several occasions but find difficult to understand. How else might you describe a man who conjured, out of a redundancy package of a few thousand pounds, a retail operation that changed the face of British bookselling, and with ... Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld - Evie Wyld, whose debut novel After the Fire, a Still Small Voice won the 2009 John Llewellyn Rhys prize, has written a short story, The Whales, exclusively for Booktrust, where she is currently writer-in-residence. Here we join Jimmy, Elaine, Terry and Yvonne, deep in the bush after five days of walking. The conclusion will appear on the Booktrust website tomorrowThere are four of them footslogging single file along the trail. They swe... Recount! The Not the Booker prize goes back to the jury - After a rather moot round of voting, we're asking you to cast your vote again in the interests of fairnessThat was a frenetic few hours of voting! And an even more frenetic few hours of counting for me. I can now reveal that the following books received the most votes:The Cuckoo Boy by Grant GillespiePictures of Lily by Matthew YorkeDeloume Road by Matthew HootonThe Canal ... Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist - Australian novelist could be first three-times winner, as fancied David Mitchell and controversial Christos Tsiolkas miss outThe Australian novelist Peter Carey was hailed as a modern day Dickens after he was shortlisted for what could be an unprecedented third Man Booker pri... The Marxist Miliband - For Ralph Miliband governments could never tame capitalism. New Labour thought otherwise ? and then came the financial crisis. But what will David or Ed do if they gain the leadership? By John GrayViewed from one angle Ralph Miliband was a theorist of revolution who failed to notice the radical transformations going on around him. A lifelong Marxist, he never doubted that the future would be shaped by the struggle against capitalism. In fa... Pass notes No 2,841 - You may not have heard of this British novelist, but Barack Obama has taken her latest book on holiday with himAge: Early 40s.Appearance: Surprisingly happy for a novelist.That's one hell of a grin. Has she just signed a multimillion-pound rights deal? Not that we know of.Or won a pointless but lucrative literary prize? That neither.Hmm. So why should we care about some la-di-... Elizabeth Jenkins obituary - Sensitive novelist and biographer of strong female charactersElizabeth Jenkins, who has died aged 104, was a novelist and biographer of exceptional quality, who was sometimes the victim of her own diffidence. Not long after Virago reprinted her novel The Tortoise and the Hare (1954) in 1983, a promotional leaflet was issued with photographs or portraits of all the Modern Classics authors. Elizabeth was the only one of whom no photograph could be found, and nor would she provide one. Above her name, there appe... Authors' boycott cancels Teen Lit festival after Ellen Hopkins 'disinvited' - A book festival for teenagers in Texas has been called off following the withdrawal of one writer's invitation on grounds of 'suitability'A literary festival for teenagers has been cancelled in Texas after a group of authors withdrew in protest at the organisers' decision to "disinvite" controversial young adult writer Ellen Hopkins.Hopkins, whose New York Times bestselling novels deal with topics from teenage drug addic... China Miéville and Paolo Bacigalupi tie for Hugo award - The City and the City and The Windup Girl draw equal numbers of votes for prestigious science fiction prizeFor only the third time in its 57 years of existence there has been a dead heat in the Hugo award for best novel, with China Miéville's The City and the City and Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl tieing for first place.The two books scored an equal number of votes from members of the World ... Christopher Hitchens asks fans not to pray for him - The author and well-known advocate of atheism, who is suffering from cancer, has asked that people refrain from 'troubling deaf heaven' over his plightAuthor and vociferous atheist Christopher Hitchens, who was diagnosed with cancer this summer, has appealed to his religious fans and friends not to "trouble deaf heaven" with their "bootless cries" for his recovery.... Video: Stephen Frears and the cast of Tamara Drewe: 'We are the middle classes and we don't like ourselves' - Stephen Frears, Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper and Tamsin Grieg tell Xan Brooks about embracing the bucolic with their film adaptation of Posy Simmonds's Guardian cartoonHenry BarnesXan Brooks... London film festival lineup revealed - ? Mike Leigh, Colin Firth and Anton Corbijn to present films alongside already confirmed Danny Boyle and Keira Knightley? David Jason and Rupert Friend to present short directorial debuts? No world premieres among the gala screeningsWarring ballet divas, a... Tech Weekly: The year in games, and Edinburgh Interactive Festival - Join Aleks Krotoski, Keith Stuart and GameBrief.com's Nicholas Lovell on Tech Weekly for a games special.The panel bring you the latest on the 13-year struggle to take Duke Nukem Forever from idea to release ? is a mysogynistic, two-dimensional games character relevant in today's more mature gaming culture? There's also a round-up of the headlines from the Edinburgh Interactive Festival: is 3D a gimmick, and is the games industry suffering from a post-modern identity crisis? And the team look back at 2010 with their business analysis of the UK games industry.Also on this week's show, Jack Arnott speaks with Stephane Gravel, producer at Beenox, who are responsible for the mutli-layered universe in the latest adventure for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.Don't forget to ? Comment below? Mail us at tech@guardian.co.uk? Get our Twitter feed... Sounds Jewish: September 2010 - Welcome back to a bumper New Year edition of the podcast. In a Sounds Jewish exclusive, the critically acclaimed and now Booker-shortlisted author reads an acerbically funny extract from his latest novel, The Finkler Question. Is his depiction of a fictional Jewish anti-Zionist group as the "ASHamed Jews" fair?Challenging his account is Tony Klug, Middle East analyst and early signatory of Independent Jewish Voices, the group some critics have speculated might be the real-life inspiration for Jacobson's "ASHamed Jews."In this frenzy of festivals ? beginning with Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur ? Jason and Howard take a look at an attempt to reclaim one of those holy days that often gets neglected: ... Audio: David Grossman: 'Israel is a lofty idea, and it's worth fighting for' - As the great Israeli author David Grossman celebrates the English language publication of his novel To The End Of The Land, he spoke to Jonathan Freedland about the book, a mother's lament for life during a wartime with no end in sight.David GrossmanJonathan FreedlandIain Chambers... The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fiction - Since it's clearly based on autobiographical events, some have asked whether In a Strange Room is really a novel at all. But like all good fiction what it offers is writer's truthIt happens like this: when you come to the end of the first page of Damon Galgut's superlative novel, In a Strange Room, you read its final sentence twice.... Letters: The joy of shopping - Alexander Chancellor offers the excited revelation (G2, 3 September) that online shopping is cheaper than shopping "in any other way". They're called "shops", Alexander, and amazingly overheads are higher on a high street than in a warehouse. They also have goods for you to peruse and handle, feel and read; free p&p; the joy of serendipity; live, and often knowledgable, staff ? sometimes even with smiles and conversation. In the case of our independent boo... An economy kept afloat by mafia cash is not just the stuff of Le Carré thrillers | Jonathan Freedland - Until we find the political will, the establishment will be happy to ignore the dirty crimes behind today's dazzling fortunesHe is bull-necked and barrel-chested, bald and foul-mouthed, the own... Booker prize shortlist: The expert view - The absence of novices on the Booker prize shortlist shows innovation isn't just about novelty, writes Claire ArmitsteadThe headlines may centre on those who didn't make the cut and on the likelihood of Peter Carey scoring a hat-trick, but the buzz in the Guardian's online reading community has been all about whether Tom McCarthy's C is really an experi... Michel Houellebecq novel ruffles literary world again - Author of La carte et le territoire accused of pinching book titleThe latest literary offering by the French author Michel Houellebecq was supposed to be his least incendiary yet: a satirical novel that kept the sexism, violence and racial hatred to a minimum. In their place, however, has slid another brewing controversy: alleged plagiarism.A writer from the southern French city of Nimes has today claimed publicly that the title of La carte et le territoire (The map and the terr... The Man Booker prize shortlist - As the 2010 Man Booker prize for fiction shortlist is announced, Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the books that made it through to the final stage - and the surprise omissions. The shortlist in fullParrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (Faber and Faber)Room by Emma Donoghue (Picador - Pan Macmillan)In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (Atlantic Books)The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson (Bloomsbury)The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Headline Review)C by Tom McCarthy (Jonathan Cape ? Random House)Claire ArmitsteadSarah CrownTim Maby... Carlo Ancelotti autobiography offers insights into winning and eating | Paul Doyle - It would be hard not to develop a fondness for the Chelsea manager while reading his smart and surprising bookIt is difficult, perhaps even unpleasant, to imagine Sir Alex Ferguson or Arsčne Wenger kicking off a chapter of their autobiography as follows: "There are times when I stand up in front of a full-length mirror and act like a contortionist. I twist my ne... British schools chief Michael Gove gets his sums wrong - Cornish clotted cream's long journey, JK Rowling's wizard donation and the colossus of the Commons feature this week in BritainMichael Gove, the education secretary, has a vision: a new generation of schools run by parents and voluntary groups. The so-called free schools ? free, that is, of bureaucratic controls and targets set by central government ? are due to spring to life next... The Man Booker prize 2010 shortlist - The six final contenders for the most prestigious prize in the British literary calendar... Natural selection: give me Darwin over Dawkins any day - Charles Darwin never patronised his audience but presented his evidence modestly; Richard Dawkins, on the other hand, lacks the patience to let natural history speak for itselfCharles Darwin was not a clever man. Well, clearly he was a ver... Booker prize shortlist drops early frontrunners - Christos Tsiolkas and David Mitchell, both much-tipped when they appeared on the award longlist, have been overlooked in the six finalistsListen to Claire Armitstead and Sarah Crown discuss the Booker shortlist on a special edition of the Guardian Books PodcastI... The Man Booker shortlist is out: what do you think? - I'm not quite convinced that the shortlist has lived up to the promise of the longlist - but am I wrong?No Mitchell? The Books desk's sharp intake of breath was surely echoed throughout the bookerverse when today's Man Booker shortlist was announced. David Mitchell's failure to make the cut is the first shock of the announcement. The omission of Christos Tsiolkas's ... Booktrust teenage prize shortlist spans time, space and genre - Novels nominated range from Mugabe's Zimbabwe to ancient Greece, tales of teen heartbreak to zombie mayhemZombies, centaurs and Robert Mugabe all feature on the shortlist of a prize for teenage reading that ranges far and wide, in terms of both geography and genre. From ancient Greece to Zimbabwe in the 1980s, the Arctic Circle to New York, the contenders for the Booktrust teenage prize also en... Guardian book club: Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín - This is a story of a very ordinary sort of life, but Tóibín manages to make its undramatic incidents and people enormously involvingSuperficially, Brooklyn is a book in which very little happens. Don't, as I almost did, let that put you off.It tells simply of the move a young Irishwoman ? Eilis Lacey ? makes from Wexford to New York City in the 1950s, of her generally happy relationship there with an Italian American called Tony, and of a trip ... Daily Dose for Wed, Sep 8: The Tenth Gift -
The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson
Reviewed by Rebecca from Opelika, Alabama.
... Daily Dose for Tue, Sep 7: When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth -
When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber
Reviewed by Nancy from Portland, Oregon.
... Daily Dose for Mon, Sep 6: Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More -
Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins
Reviewed by Rebecca from Manassas, Virginia.
... Daily Dose for Sun, Sep 5: Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir -
Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir by Dave Mustaine
Reviewed by Dave from Portland, Oregon.
... Daily Dose for Sat, Sep 4: Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine -
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine by Jasper Becker
Reviewed by Juanita from New York, New York.
... Daily Dose for Fri, Sep 3: The Shadow of the Wind -
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Reviewed by Anna from Boise, Idaho.
... Daily Dose for Thu, Sep 2: City of Bones: Mortal Instruments #1 -
City of Bones: Mortal Instruments #1 by Cassandra Clare
Reviewed by Mariah from Ivins, Utah.
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