2nd of June, 2009, marked the release of Paula Froelich's first novel, "Mercury in Retrograde" Page Six editor's debut novel tells the tale of three New-York or Yorky women, who have very ...

The idea of the existence of dinosaurs has always been providing food for thought. The giant creatures that are said to have walked the earth in the past have captured the imaginations ...

Taysha Valez is the author of "Young Black Millionairess: How To Start a Million Dollar Business", the owner of H. Couture Beauty LLC and at 27, is a self made billionaire. ...

Reynold Price, the 76 year old writer, has come up with his third memoir, titled "Ardent Spirits". At present Price is bodily restricted to a wheel chair, the result of an accident ...

Washington Post columnist David Ignatius' seventh novel The Increment is on the stands now. Ignatius' interests continues to be the conflict between fact and fiction, as he himself says, and that largely ...

In 1920s Ivar Kreuger was the savior of Europe, however, a decade later, in 1932 a month after his death he was revealed has the greatest swindler of all times. A biography ...

Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) The 149th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated Saturday amid great enthusiasm across West Bengal with renderings of songs and poems composed by him. Tagore, the ...

New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) Aatish Taseer's book "Stranger to History" continued to dominate the bestseller list in the non-fiction category for the third week while Paulo Coelho was the new ...

New York, April 26 (IANS) As President Barack Obama completes 100 days in office next week, the White House has received a book full of letters and drawings from children who ...

London, April 23 (IANS) It is a 300-year-old post at the venerable Oxford University and previous occupants include W.H. Auden, Matthew Arnold and Seamus Heaney. Now Indian poet and teacher A.K. Mehrotra's ...

New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Aatish Taseer's book "Stranger to History" continued to maintain its position at the top of the charts in the non-fiction category this week, while "In Other Rooms, ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, April 22 (IANS) Fortyseven years after he created a sensation with his best-selling novel about a hotel in his native Kolkata, Bengali writer Sankar is kicking up a ...

New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Pakistan-based Kamila Shamsie's novel "Burnt Shadows" has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction 2009, its publishers said Tuesday, A sweeping novel, "Burnt Shadows" is woven around ...

New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Sarita Mandanna, a US-based Indian author, has created ripples in the publishing world as her "Tiger Hills" has received the largest advance Penguin India house has so ...

Madrid, April 21 (DPA) A decade-old plagiarism case could be reopened in Spain against 1989 Nobel Literature Prize winner Camilo Jose Cela, the daily El Pais reported Tuesday. As Cela died in 2002, ...

By Pupul Dutta New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Watching the latest flick on your mobile may still be some months away. But you can catch up with favourite comic strips or read ...

New York, April 21 (DPA) The New York Times received five Pulitzer prizes Monday for investigative, breaking news and international reporting, feature photography and criticism, leading a field of smaller newspapers ...

London, April 20 (DPA) British physicist Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned author of "A Brief History of Time", was admitted to hospital in the university city of Cambridge Monday where he was described ...

New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Mansi Bhatia, a cute seven-year-old girl from Faridabad, was briefly the cynosure of all eyes at the prime minister's residence at 7, Race Course Road Monday ...

The writer J.G. Ballard, best known for the autobiographical novel 'Empire Of The Sun,' which drew on his childhood detention in a Japanese prison camp in China, died on Sunday, his agent ...

Port of Spain, April 19 (Xinhua) A book that was presented to US President Barak Obama by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a regional leaders' summit here, rocketed to bestseller status overnight ...

New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Kerala is many things to many people. While it is "god's own country" for some because of its scenic lushness, others think it an "embarrassment that encourages ...

New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) World's most popular Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck comics books are being launched for the first time in the country. These will be available both in Hindi ...

New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) "The Icon", a biography of Marshal of the Indian Air Force Arjan Singh, was released on his 91st birthday Wednesday, even as a demand was made to ...

New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar, named in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot cases, should have themselves withdrawn their election candidature before the Congress asked them do so after ...

Oscar Winner Marlee Matlin has opened up about drugs, sex abuse and her abusive boyfriend William Hurt in her new autobiography "I'll Scream Later". In the book the 43 year old deaf actress ...

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Gandhian poet and writer Vishnu Prabhakar, who died here Saturday, was the last link between contemporary Hindi literature and that of the pre-Independence era. Prabhakar, 97, died after ...

New Delhi, April 11 (IANS) Noted Hindi poet and Gandhian Vishnu Prabhakar died in the capital Saturday. He was 97. Prabhakar was best known for his engaging biography of Bengali litterateur Sarat Chandra ...

By Samini Philip Book: "Indian by Choice"; Author: Amit Dasgupta; Publisher: Wisdom Tree; Price: Rs.395 "Indian by Choice" is a unique graphic novel about Mandeep - a young Indian born in the US who ...

New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) American writer and filmmaker Sadia Shepard came to Indian to find her roots and understand her heritage - a mix of Protestant, Jewish and Islamic culture. She ...