Entertainment | Books
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Monday Jun 17
Book review: Inferno by Dan Brown
The great sin of author’s fiction is that Robert Langdon has no pulse, no personality, nothing to make us care
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Friday Jun 14
Judy Blume collaborates with son for film adaptation Tiger Eyes
The film will be about a teenager who has to start a new life after the murder of her father
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Thursday Jun 13
Book review: Did Desert Shield Lead to Desert Hate?
Osama Bin Laden used as a prism to separate the many layers of discord that are often generalised, wrongly, as anti-Americanism
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Thursday Jun 13
‘War is a test of people’s mettle’: Australian author Thomas Keneally
Writer explains why battlefields feature so prominently in his novels
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Wednesday Jun 12
John Galliano: the books he should have read in rehab
Galliano was told he couldn’t read Keith Richards’s autobiography during rehab, but these books might have helped
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Monday Jun 10
List of best-sellers of the week
Friday shares top reads for this week
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Friday Jun 7
Archie graduates to the big screen
The comedy will be produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and will feature the lead Archie characters in a high school in present-day Riverdale
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Friday Jun 7
John Boyne pays homage to Dickens in latest book
Best-selling Irish author John Boyne, whose award-winning novel The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas was made into a hit film, turns his attentions to ghosts in his latest book. He tells Hannah Stephenson about writing for kids and adults
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Thursday Jun 6
The Sons of Adam by Alan Mackie
A statement on the collective demand of people, told in part as travelogue, and in part as political analysis
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Thursday Jun 6
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
Did cooking make us human? And is our modern diet killing us? A useful book on the growing significance of food studies
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Thursday Jun 6
‘Victims remember, victors never do’
John le Carre tells why, for his new novel, he has turned his unforgiving gaze on Britain
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Thursday Jun 6
Book review: Worth Dying For, by Lee Child
A thriller that reads better after the suspension of disbelief
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Monday Jun 3
List of best-sellers of the week
Friday shares top reads for this week
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Saturday Jun 1
Superman turns 75, gets a new logo
New logo is part of a year-long celebration of the ‘first super hero’
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Friday May 31
Oprah Winfrey to Harvard grads: Learn from your failures
The media mogul’s speech dipped into politics, as she referred to partisanship that’s stymied legislation she said most Americans favour
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Friday May 31
Jim Carrey to publish children’s book
Titled How Roland Rolls, it is about a wave named Roland
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Thursday May 30
Book review: Khatami’s Iran
Former president Mohammad Khatami showed even a conservative Iran offers space for reforms
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Thursday May 30
Review: The Book of Fate
The strength and character of a woman is tested as Iran grapples with zealotry and political upheavals
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Thursday May 30
Ringo Starr has a new book: Photograph
The never-before seen images of the Beatles, and stories portray four lads from Liverpool, trying to live normal lives amid the frenzy surrounding them
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Wednesday May 29
New Bridget Jones book is ‘Mad About the Boy’
Author Helen Fielding says Jones is older and has moved on
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Monday May 27
10 smart diet books
Whether you want to ditch the inches, cleanse your body or just make healthier choices, there’s a book to give you that extra bit of motivation, says Tabitha Barda
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Friday May 24
Cath Kidston made domesticity fashionable but prefers independence
Despite making millions from products associated with homemaking, the designer believes ‘it’s nice to have one’s own life and support oneself’
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Thursday May 23
Book review: The Yogic Manager
Avinash B. Sharma’s work reads like a novel and offers a holistic perspective of management
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Thursday May 23
Book review: “How Asia Works”
A study of why some states in the continent prosper while others are left behind
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Thursday May 23
Book review: “The Way of the Knife”
A journalist looks at the country’s targeted killings and use of drones in the war on terror
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