Author discusses possibility of chemotherapy, as well as fan letters he's been sending to other writersIain Banks, who in April, has posted another update to fans, in which he ruminates on everything from his new car to the possibility of chemotherapy.The bestselling Scottish novelist has been the recipient of an outpouring of goodwill and support from his readers since he told them in early...

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Latest from Da Vinci Code author shifts a quarter of a million paper copies in first week on saleDan Brown's new novel Inferno has soared to the top of the UK's book charts in its first week in shops, selling a whopping 228,961 copies and dwarfing the second-placed title, Martina Cole's The Life, which sold a respectable 23,821.The official sales figures, released on Tuesday afternoon by Nielsen...

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I have hit the halfway point. Four months in, 75 books read, 75 left to go. Judging the Man Booker Prize, to paraphrase Bette Davis, is not for sissies. I did the Orange Prize last year (about 50 books for each judge), and it ate up all my free time: during every bus journey, every moment sitting waiting for a film to start, every interval of whatever play I was reviewing, I'd whip out a book...

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'Johnny Depp owes me – he pinched my whole look in Edward Scissorhands'How did you get into writing poetry?At primary school. I had a great enthusiasm for it, as did everybody in my class. We were – we learned it off by heart. Never did me any harm.What was your big breakthrough?Punk rock, I guess: playing those venues [he toured with bands such as the Sex Pistols and the Clash]. Before...

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James Franco, whose Faulkner adaptation for the big-screen, “As I Lay Dying,” is playing at Cannes, discusses his love of Faulkner and his ability to handle multiple projects at once.

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'Although the book is very easy to read and full of fun there are serious messages in it about coping with grief...'Like Billie Templar's War, the other book that I have read by Ellie Irving, For the Record has, at its core, a missing father. But in this story Luke's father has died and he and his mum are still missing him terribly. Do not be put off by this because the book is, essentially, a...

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V eseji Čas falošných diagnóz Peter Macsovszky napísal, že úlohou spisovateľa je hovoriť o tom, čo filozof nevládze zrozumiteľne vyjadriť. Kto je však povestný filozof?

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His best-selling novels illuminate the shadowy organisations that supposedly run the world. But Dan Brown was “honoured” to receive an invitation to join the Freemasons, the arcane fraternity whose tentacles are said to extend into the highest echelons of power.

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A BBC documentary will investigate the death of the most astonishing woman of her age. Historian Dan Jones reports.

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'Mesmeric' storytelling of The Detour secures £10,000 purse, shared with translator David ColmerDutch author Gerbrand Bakker's "haunting" story of a Dutch scholar who retreats to a Welsh farmhouse after an affair has won the Independent Foreign Fiction prize.Bakker, who took the €100,000 Impac prize for his debut novel The Twin, narrowly beat Argentinian author to win the...

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