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Racy novel 'to encourage pupils to read'
A sacked English teacher has defended writing the online book.
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Chris Schuler: Indus epic wins travel award
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Alice Albinia has won the Dolman Best Travel Book Award for 2009 for her book Empires of the Indus.
World's oldest bible published in full online
Monday, 6 July 2009
The Codex Sinaiticus is available on a free website following a collaboration between four institutions in Germany, Russia, Egypt and Britain.
After Suitable Boy, India in frenzy over Suitable Girl
Friday, 3 July 2009
Andrew Buncombe: Vikram Seth has revealed he is working on a sequel for his best-selling novel set in today's changing India.
Judge blocks Catcher in the Rye sequel
Friday, 3 July 2009
A Swedish author whose new book was promoted as a sequel to JD Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye cannot publish it in the US.
Counter-terror book is blocked
Friday, 3 July 2009
The publication of a book by a former top counter-terrorism officer has been blocked by the Attorney General.
Britain 'knows little about Bible'
Monday, 29 June 2009
The public is widely ignorant of the stories and people who provide the basis of Christianity, a survey has found, despite 75 per cent of respondents owning a copy of the Bible.
Shelved, the book that outraged the Orkneys
Monday, 22 June 2009
Publisher bins manuscript about 'repressed drunks stuck in the 1950s' after threats of legal action and MP's complaint
Fritzl: a perfect gift for Father's Day, say Tesco and WH Smith
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Even by the standards of last-minute trawls of the high street for that CD or pair of socks which show a child's love for their father, it seems an improbable gift. But to some branches of Tesco and W H Smith, The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth seemed a surefire hit for the Dad market. The book, which details how the Austrian, now 74, imprisoned his daughter Elisabeth in his cellar for 24 years, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children, has featured as a Father's Day promotion.
Twitterers take on Ulysses
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
The decline of Western civilisation in 140 characters or less
Harry Potter plagiarism claims 'unfounded'
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury hit back at plagiarism claims today, branding the allegations "unfounded, unsubstantiated and untrue".
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