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To meet the demands of readers on the move, the county branch library here offers members downloadable audio books and a video-on-demand service.

John Wooley is well aware that his latest book project is likely to appeal to a somewhat specialized audience.

Mukul Kesavan in the Outlook in a superb review of an anthology of Tamil Pulp fiction, wonders why India apparently lacks popular 'pulp' fiction.

The Bard may not have actually penned novels, but he has inspired three forthcoming ones.

When one of my best friends - a bold, opinionated, take-charge career supergirl - said those words to me over lunch one day, I was stunned.

It's Irwyn Applebaum, president of Bantam Doubleday Dell, informing him that his 12th Reacher yarn, Nothing to Lose, is about to debut at No.

Werner Heisenberg 's anecdote about fellow physicist Paul Dirac , describing a scene when they were traveling together to Japan, as given by Gino Segre in Faust in Copenhagen : We were on the steamer from ...

Brown, Janelle. All We Ever Wanted Was Everything. Spiegel & Grau. Jun. 2008. c.368p. ISBN 978-0-385-52401-8. $24.95. F Verdict: Brown's first novel rates as one the most difficult-to-put-down books of the ...

While i was focused on such weighty matters as Justice Kaul's judgement on the MF Husain obscenity case and the finals of the IPL, i missed an anniversary i really should have brought to the attention of the ...

With The Perfect Wife , a reprint of a 1996 title, hitting No. 1 on the New York Times 's best sellers list and Seduction of a Proper Gentleman , the eagerly awaited finale to her "Last Man Standing" series, ...

Alcohol has been very, very good to Jonathan Miles. The ecstasies and sorrows of drink are at the center of the 37-year-old's first novel, "Dear American Airlines." The darkly funny, achingly poignant portrait ...

Like many readers, I have the same approach to sequels that one has to a car crash: a combination of horrified fascination and hope that the damage isn't quite as bad as one thinks.

Another Memorial Day Weekend has come and gone, bringing with it sunny 80-degree idle beach days.

When kids are little, they beg for just one more story. In third-grade, they hide under the covers with a flashlight and read way past their bedtime.

DEVIL MAY CARE, by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming . Doubleday, 278pp., $24.95. If Ian Fleming's James Bond novels had never made it to the screen, it's very likely that today 007 would be, like Raffles ...

Andy Crouch feels uncomfortable when Christians talk about "transforming culture" or "making an impact on society." But he strongly believes churches should do far more to encourage Christians to make culture ...

Reshma Thomas writes in to ask: Have you ever read any works from Dashiell Hammett? If so, what do you think of him as a person and as a writer? Are there any authors that remind you of him? I have had limited, ...

This is the latest installment in a weekly column by Fwis, a graphic design group that blogs on book jacket design.

BRITAIN'S first academic centre dedicated to the study of novelists and the world of fiction is to be established at Aberdeen University, it was revealed yesterday.

Atlus' Operation Darkness is an epic fantasy WWII turn-based strategy game from Metal Saga developers Success.