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Boyzone's Ronan Keating is teaming up with Christine Bleakley for a new BBC show which turns viewers' stories into published books. Read More

The New Statesman's friends and contributors choose their favourite books of 2009 Sarah Churchwell Goldengrove (Harper Collins, £10.99), the 12th novel by Francine Prose, is an elegiac farewell to the golden groves of childhood, a slim, sad coming-of-age tale in the great tradition of Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding or even Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. The novel is narrated by 13-year-old Nico, whose small family is reeling at the sudden, accidental drowning of her beloved elder sister, Margaret. Read More

An enthusiastic crowd greeted former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at two book signings on Tuesday. Read More

After being in the music industry for 50 years and causing many a pelvic thrust, British Indian composer Biddu has now switched to writing. Read More

It's not even a year since the triumphalism of Jeff Jarvis's Google 'reverse engineering' book ' What Would Google Do ?' hit the book shelves, but it seems an age ago now. Read More

I've seen this happen myself, and with both moms and dads and daughters and sons, when it comes to getting kids some comics. Read More

Going back to puppy dogs and their incessant sniffing-before-befriending, one can witness the effect of scents on the human psyche. Read More

Our Lives are the Rivers by Jaime Manrique , gives due credit to Manuela Saenz , you know one of those women in history who did all the brain work, but had to give some men all the credit, because of the gender prejudice of the time. Read More

Sarah Palin sat down for Sunday dinner with the Rev. Billy Graham, a day before a planned stop on her book tour at Fort Bragg. Read More

Despite receiving Canadian and U.S. government rescue loans as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in concessions from their unions, Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors will continue to shift auto production outside of Canada and the United States, Buzz Hargrove, former president of the Canadian Auto Workers predicts. Read More