Bill Cheng’s first novel, “Southern Cross the Dog,” is set in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era.

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This might be the best attempt yet to film Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Which is not to say this is a good filmWriting about in relation to F Scott Fitzgerald's prose, is like trying to describe a gorilla playing with a Fabergé egg. There it is, this great hairy, wild-eyed beast, stomping, roaring, thumping its chest. It neither knows nor cares about the delicate beauty it holds in its mattock...

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Refusing further business, Barefoot Books says retail giant has undermined its commitment to 'grassroots values'An award-winning children's publisher has cut its ties with Amazon, saying that the online retail giant has turned its books into commodities and undermined its way of doing business.Citing her commitment "to diversity and to grassroots values; to 'small is beautiful'",...

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German chancellor tops list of most powerful women for third year running, while Queen drops 14 places to 40thThe Queen and JK Rowling are once again the only two British women to feature in the Forbes Most Powerful Women list, which has been led by Angela Merkel for the third year running.The German chancellor is ranked ahead of Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff, Melinda Gates, who co-chairs the...

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Collection owned by biographer Hunter Davies, which includes early versions of classic tunes, handed to British LibraryA collection of tattered scraps of paper, some picked up half a century ago from the floor of the Abbey Road recording studios before they were thrown away as rubbish, now valued at just under £1m, have been presented to the nation by the Beatles biographer Hunter...

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Nicholas Blincoe on last night's PEN auction, where JK Rowling's first book sold for a record amount.

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Sam Leith relishes an obscenity-strewn journey through Roman, biblical and medieval timesIt's wonderful stuff, swearing. It stiffens the sinews and summons up the blood, and not just metaphorically. Obscenities actually do act on us physiologically. Swearing increases electrical conductance across the skin, pushes the heart rate higher and measurably increases resistance to pain.Obscenities are...

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Author of The Enemy zombie series Charlie Higson is looking for a young film maker to create a gory trailer for his new book – could it be you?Charlie Higson has launched a competition to make the official trailer for his new book The Fallen, the latest in his The Enemy zombie series. This isn't a one for fainting types, though - a key criteria is "plenty of gore". Higson has acquired...

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Only three books remain in contention for the £10,000 prize, including one written entirely in verse.

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Keď pred desiatimi rokmi vyšla prvotina Robina Sharmu Mních, ktorý predal svoje Ferrari, spôsobila obrovský rozruch. Odvtedy zmenila život miliónom ľudí a stala sa fenoménom.

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