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Sue Gerhardt on How We All Forgot to Love One Another and Made Money Instead
Posted On: April 15, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
The author is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist. She wrote the bestselling Why Love Matters, an accessible account of the neuroscience of early development. The Selfish Society is her latest book.
Read More...Read an extract from Coward at the Bridge, by James Delingpole
Posted On: April 14, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Trapped in a cupboard with a nubile blonde nymphomaniac; crossing the Waal under a hail of fire with the US paratroops of 82nd airborne; rattling in a jeep through the Dutch countryside with the men of 1st Airborne Recce Squadron; trying to take out a self-propelled gun with a ruddy useless PIAT. It’s all in a day’s work for Lt Dick Coward and Sgt Tom Price.
Read More...Author Robin Sharma on The Leader Who Had No Title
Posted On: April 13, 2010Posted In: Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Robin Sharma is one of the world’s experts on leadership and personal success. The author of eight major international bestsellers, including The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, his mission is to help people and organizations get to world class. Here he talks about his latest book, The Leader Who Had No Title.
Read More...An extract from Six Months in Sudan
Posted On: April 12, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
James Maskalyk set out for the contested border town of Abyei, Sudan, in 2007. The newest Médicins Sans Frontières’ doctor in the field, he arrived with only his training, full of desire to understand this most desperate part of the world. He returned home six months later profoundly affected by the experience.
Read More...Jonathan Jones on Michaelangelo and Leonardo’s great rivalry
Posted On: April 9, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Michelangelo and Leonardo lived five centuries ago, but their works still obsess our culture, with a popular and universal quality that nothing else matches. Here, Jonathan Jones talks about their great, and barely documented, rivalry, which is addressed in his new book The Lost Battles.
Read More...The Secret History of Kensington Palace, with Lucy Worsley
Posted On: April 9, 2010Posted In: Articles, Interviews
Publisher: Faber
As Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces there is no one better placed than Lucy Worsley to take us on a tour of the history of Kensington Palace. In her new book Courtiers she gives us the men and women who considered it home, worked there and visited during the time of George II.
Read More...Mick Jackson: The Book That…
Posted On: April 8, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
As his latest novel hits the bookshops, we find out what books have made a significant impression on Mick Jackson.
Read More...Read an extract from Under the Skin
Posted On: April 8, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Isserley spends most of her time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Michel Faber’s debut novel, freshly reissued for 2010, is an outstanding piece of fiction that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.
Read More...An extract from Hector and the Search for Happiness
Posted On: April 7, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Gallic Books
Hector is a successful young psychiatrist. He’s very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they’re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. Hector can’t do much for them, and it’s beginning to depress him. In this extract, follow him to China in his search for what it means to be happy.
Read More...Get the White Queen on your iPhone
Posted On: April 7, 2010Posted In: News
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
With the paperback of Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen out next week, readers can download a free iPhone app to get loads of additional information behind the book.
Read More...April Crime round-up
Posted On: April 6, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Let there be blood… a summation of the latest crime releases from our sinister publishers.
Read More...James Shapiro on Contested Will
Posted On: April 5, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
In 1599 James Shapiro looked solely at a year in the life of William Shakespeare – a momentous year, which changed the course of literature. In his new book Contested Will he investigates one of literature’s great mysteries – did Shakespeare actually write what we think he wrote?
Read More...An interview with François Lelord
Posted On: April 5, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Gallic Books
François Lelord has had a successful career as a psychiatrist both in the United States and France. He now devotes his time to writing, and is the author (in conjunction with Christophe André) of a number of best-selling self-help books. His new novel, Hector and the Search for Happiness, has just been published by Gallic Books.
Read More...April contemporary fiction round-up – part one
Posted On: April 2, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
A veritable feast of new fiction from Bookhugger publishers this supposed first month of Summer…
Read More...The Gospel According to Matthew: introduction by A.N. Wilson
Posted On: April 1, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
The following is A.N. Wilson’s introduction to the Gospel According to Matthew. It was originally published in The Pocket Canons and is now available in The Four Gospels, published by Canongate.
Read More...Philip Pullman: How Stories Become Stories
Posted On: April 1, 2010Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
In The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, Philip Pullman takes us back two thousand years to the time of Jesus, for his own version of the New Testament story. Here, he explains some of his ambitions in his approach to the world’s most influential myth.
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