This will be the third but not necessarily the last stage in Julian Assange's attempts to resist extradition to Sweden. ...
09:02 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Pulitzer prize winner David Remnick speaks about Barack Obama's biography and Salman Rushdie's absence from the Jaipur Literature Festival. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Booklovers can look forward to a great year ahead as some several interesting titles including biographies of Barack Obama, Rajnikanth and Aung San Suu Kyi and fictional works by the likes of Jeffrey Archer and Shobhaa De have been lined up for 2012. Penguin India's upcoming books include "Man of the World: A Biography of Barack" by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss; "Rajinikanth" by critic Naman Ramachandran; Shashi...
07:28 PM, Jan 18, 2012
'Jerusalem: The Biography' is one of the great reads of the year for me and you should not miss out on reading this one. I have always loved reading anything by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He writes with honesty and passion that is hard to miss. Whether it is about Stalin as a boy and adolescent to Monsters and Heroes, Montefiore does a remarkable job of it. Jerusalem is a true...
06:30 PM, Jan 03, 2012
Kolkata: Famed for his literary, artistic and intellectual capabilities the world over, Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore led a very lonely life and even suffered from frequent bouts of depression, says his new biography. "In January 1915 Tagore again speaks of a 'breakdown', 'deep depression', but in February he claimed to have been healed in the solitude of the boat he inhabited on the banks of the Padma (river) in north...
02:01 PM, Dec 26, 2011
Brett Lee has come out with his autobiography 'My Life' in which he supports Harbhajan Singh against Andrew Symonds. ...
05:24 PM, Dec 25, 2011
Mumbai: Weighing an incredible 37 kgs, running up to 800 pages and consisting of exclusive content including fascinating extracts from Shahrukh Khan's personal diary, "King Khan - The Official Opus of Shah Rukh Khan" is likely to be released next year. "I am overwhelmed by the honour. Though there have been books written about me, but the magnificence of this book simply stands out. I am thankful to the group...
07:43 PM, Dec 12, 2011
Washington: 'Steve Jobs', the only authorised biography of the late Apple co-founder, has climbed to the top of Amazon.com's best-selling books for 2011. The book was released in October, Xinhua reported. The 56-year-old Jobs died Oct 5 after a long battle with cancer. Amazon.com, however, did not give the exact sales numbers. According to earlier data from Nielsen BookScan, the book sold around 383,000 copies in its first week of...
11:54 AM, Dec 07, 2011
New Delhi: Italian automobile manufacturer Ferrari on Thursday unveiled its official biography 'The Ferrari Official Opus' -- the diamond-encrusted volume is priced at $250,000 (approx Rs.1.3 crore) making it the costliest book to be sold in India. The book, of which only 4,100 copies have been printed, weighs 37 kg. The book was released at the Ferrari showroom in the capital, the company announced. The cover bears the logo of...
11:32 AM, Dec 03, 2011
New Delhi: Another honour for India born doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee. He has bagged the 10 thousand pound Guardian First Book Award for his book on cancer. 'The Emperor of All Maladies' which won the Pulitzer prize earlier in April, was the only work of non-fiction on the shortlist. Mukherjee is an oncologist who treats cancer patients at the Columbia University Medical Center. ...
03:18 PM, Dec 02, 2011
London: A history of cancer, 'The Emperor of All Maladies', won the 2011 Guardian First Book Award on Thursday, beating four works of fiction also on the shortlist. The author, American oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee, has described the work as a "biography" of cancer, or "an attempt to enter the mind of this immortal illness, to understand its personality, to demystify its behaviour". The annual prize organised by British newspaper The...
11:51 AM, Dec 02, 2011
London: Beatles legend George Harrison's sister Louise says she is writing a book about the guitarist and his famous bandmates. Louise Harrison is the older sister of the late guitarist - who died of lung cancer ten years ago on November 29 - at the age of 58. She said that she wants to tell the real story of her brother and his famous bandmates, John Lennon, Paul McCartney and...
06:40 PM, Dec 01, 2011
New Delhi: Rafa My Story, the biography by John Carlin of one of the greatest players in the history of professional tennis, is a true lesson of the benefits that can be derived, if the will to dig deep and get the best out of oneself is taken to the ultimate limit. It provides an amazing account as to how the Spanish bull, Rafael Nadal portrayed as a phenomenon on...
06:37 PM, Nov 24, 2011
London: Julian Barnes, who won this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and Carol Ann Duffy, Britain's poet laureate, were among the nominees for the 2011 Costa Book Awards announced on Tuesday. English author Barnes is one of four shortlisted for the best novel category for "The Sense of an Ending", the work that won him the coveted Booker award last month at the fourth time of asking. Scottish writer...
01:30 PM, Nov 16, 2011
London: The 'Great Train Robber' Ronnie Biggs has finally apologised for the death of the train driver coshed in the infamous heist of 2.6 million pounds in the UK. Victim Jack Mills died in 1970, some seven years after the Great Train Robbery which was committed by a 15-member gang on 8 August 1963 at Bridego Railway Bridge in Britain. Biggs, now 82, who has never before shown remorse for...
02:54 PM, Nov 15, 2011
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