This is a comprehensive biography of the president and an assessment of his leadership qualities on and off the battlefield.Eisenhower in War and Peace Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
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This is the perfect read for this time of year when we're still happy to escape into a good book at the beach or under a shade tree and take the time to savour, in this instance, the leisurely revelation of the people who live in Gabriel's Bay. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-12-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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We review more than 8,000 books per year, and these were the 10 most-read reviews of books published in 2017. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-12-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As a new report reveals the dire financial straits being faced by literary novelists, we investigate how these bleak conditions arose and what can be done to help the writers, regarded by some as thoroughbreds and by others as ghosts of Christmas past. We also catch up with Edward St Aubyn, one... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Microsoft’s Surface Book 2 solves a big problem for Microsoft: How do you market the Surface Book as a performance notebook when it’s two years out of date? As our review shows, by making it bigger and faster, with longer battery life.With the Surface Book 2, Microsoft brings 8th-generation... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Turtles All the Way Down is best-selling author John Green's first novel since 2012's runaway success, The Fault in Our Stars. While that book tackled the issue of teens with cancer, this book centres on a protagonist suffering from anxiety and obsessive-compulsive thoughts and behaviour. Green,... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Alan Hollinghurst was born in 1954, so he is now in his mid-60s. It is well to remember this when you read The Sparsholt Affair. Like The Line of Beauty, the book that won Hollinghurst the Man Booker prize back in 2004, The Sparsholt Affair is a long and densely detailed novel. Also like the... Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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W H Smith has reported a 2% rise in revenue and a 7% rise in pre-tax profits for the year to end August 2017. However its book business saw a like-for-like revenue drop of 4% on the previous year. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Like certain comets, books by Jeffrey Eugenides appear only rarely. Since 1993 he has dropped a novel a decade: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, which won a Pulitzer Prize, and most recently The Marriage Plot. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2017-10-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Egmont Publishing has signed a new deal between Michael Morpurgo and illustrator Barroux based on the "epic", true story of Morpurgo’s uncles during World War Two. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kid Normal authors Greg James and Chris Smith are joining the Blue Peter Book Awards’ judging panel. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McFly band member turned children's author Tom Fletcher has launched a children's book club exclusively with WH Smith. The book club titles will get promotion in-store, online and on Fletcher's YouTube channel, which has over 625,000 subscribers. The new club follows that WH Smith already runs... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Mackenzie Smith is leaving the Bell Lomax Moreton Agency to become editorial director for children’s picture books and novelties at Simon & Schuster UK. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The French books and reading website Babelio, which claims to be the leader in its field by a long shot, aims to post at least one review of all the hundreds of new novels being published during this year’s Rentrée Littéraire between August and mid-October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pressure on book review coverage is mounting after the axing of half the Press Association's output, and some women’s magazines scrapping their dedicated books editor role, The Bookseller has been told. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times writer is stepping down from her role, leaving behind a remarkable career characterized by razor-sharp reviews and intra-literary rowsMichiko Kakutani, the New York Times’ revered chief book critic, announced she was stepping down from her post on Thursday after 38 years,... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In the spirit of Christopher Nolan's new film, 'Dunkirk,' here are three new titles in which everyday people fight to survive and commit unsung acts of heroism. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-07-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Like so few things in life, Google's printed photo book service works exactly as advertised. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2017-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A five-week summer program created by the L.A. Review of Books is currently underway at USC to help people break into the publishing industry. But that industry, despite having some local stars, is centered 3,000 miles away. “We do want to make people job ready," said LARB publisher and editor... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2017-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zoella has re-launched her book club with W H Smith, this time enlisting the help of fellow authors to select the titles. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Samsung’s Galaxy Book is a 2-in-1 tablet with a detachable keyboard that gets pretty much everything you care about right. Its price, performance, and battery life are all among the best we’ve tested.While it lacks the razzle-dazzle of flagships like the new Surface Pro, it's still the sort of... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2017-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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