The 2009 Man Booker Prize will be awarded to British writer Hilary Mantel for her historical novel ‘Wolf Hall’, which is set in England’s Tudor. She will win prize money worth 50,000 pound.
 
‘Wolf Hall’, set in the 1520s, essays the rise of Thomas Cromwell, a ...

The launch of Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol, is "one of the most anticipated publishing events of all time", as online bookseller Amazon, which claims to be keeping its stockpile of copies "under 24-hour guard in its own chain-link enclosure, with two locks requiring ...

All the way from his home at 221 B, Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes has come to Bihar. Indian writer Partha Basu, in his debut fiction work, The Curious Case of 221 B, has set up a mystery in Deogarh, Bihar, which would be unraveled by none other than the legendary detective Sherlock ...

According to the National Book Trust, India will be the guest at the Moscow Book Fair which is scheduled to be held in Moscow from Sep 2 to Sep 7.
 
There will be a pavilion of more than 1000 sq metres which will exclusively be dedicated to India. This section will exhibit about 100 books on ...

Amitabh Bachchan had initiated the blogging trend in Bollywood and thousands of his fans from around the world are following his daily updates.  Now, Big B`s blogs will be turned into a book.
 
The Senior Bachchan has expressed his opinion on everything right from Australian racism row ...

Book: "The Idea of Justice"
Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Penguin-Allen Lane
Price: 25 pounds (Rs.2,000)
 
With this book, Amartya Sen is trying to explore what justice means and has come up with an alternative to the existing model. While doing so, he is also creating an urge ...

The Man Booker Prize list was announced in London on Wednesday with J.M. Coetzee and A.S. Byatt leading the list, but it is surprising that there are no Indian novelists in the list this time.
 
Coetzee, who has won the prize twice, is competing this time with his semi-autobiographical work ...

India is now a part of the 10 best cookbook publishing countries across the world by winning an award and a special mention at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Paris for two culinary works.
 
While "The Emperor's Table" by Salma Hussain has won the Best in the World Book for ...

A new book on Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, written by scholar and educationist Som P. Ranchan, was released in Shimla on Friday by Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal.
 
Dhumal said: "The book would help research scholars understand Buddhism better. It has ...

Novelist Amitav Ghosh shared his Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 for his book "Sea of Poppies" with writer-reviewer Neel Mukherjee for his novel "Past Continuous" in the English fiction category.
 
The awards were announced at a glittering function in the Nehru ...

With “My Diva Diet”, the author guides the reader through a complete plan to help the women achieve the health and body they want. And, when I say "complete", I am not making any exaggeration. This book is enormous and full of guides, charts, worksheets, quizzes, recipes, and ...

Man Booker winning author, Arundhati Roy,  takes a investigating look at the underbelly of the world's oldest democracy in her new anthology of essays "Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy" which is published this week.
 
"By democracy, I don't mean ...

A book has been written about a panda that went missing during last year's Sichuan earthquake in China and the Hong Kong woman who adopted the animal for financing a panda nature reserve.
 
The book, "In Love with Pandas - The Story of Qing Qing & I", tells of the bond between ...

Pinki Virani, the award-winning author of three controversial non-fiction books that dealt with issues as diverse as sexual abuse of children and Mumbai's fragile social fabric, is back -- this time with a fictional tale of contemporary Indian history.
 
"My new book 'Deaf Heaven' is ...

Stephen Richards had served time in the ederal prison for dealing with drugs. He says that the "Beyond Bars: Rejoining Society After Prison" is about the advises fro the inmates on how to stay out of prison once they are released from the jails.
 
It covers everything from ...

The marketing campaign for the Man Booker winning novel, "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, has bagged the 'Excellence Award (best book)' of the Asian Multimedia Publishing Award 2009.
 
The campaign was adjudged the best for using multimedia marketing by a publisher in the most ...

The Man Booker prize winning book by Arvind Adiga, "The White Tiger", has been short listed for the Asian Multimedia Publishing Awards 2009. This is the first time the publishing industry has been acknowledged for its marketing efforts.
 
Noted journalist Nalin Mehta's book, ...

The book and music retailer, Landmark, has plans to open five to six new stores across various Indian cities this fiscal on an investment of Rs.30 crore.
 
Announcing the launch of its first store in Hyderabad on Tuesday, Landmark chief operating officer Himanshu Chakrawarti said that the ...

Don’t you have time for reading the contents of a novel in book format? Now there is an alternate way to read your favourite book.
 
Mobile phones are the alternative. A leading publisher has come up with the first work of fiction in the Indian subcontinent in SMS ...

The "Islamicate Cultures of Bombay Cinema" had been written over a period of almost two years by Ira Bhaskar, an associate professor of cinema studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Richard Allen, chair of Cinema Studies at New York University. ...

 Book Name:- "You're Hired: How You Get That Job And Keep It Too" 
Author:- Nasha Fitter Publications:- Penguin India-Books
Price:- Rs. 199 

Do you feel that there is some problem in the way you are presenting yourself before a prospective employer? Have you ...

Pop star Justin Timberlake is taking his love for golf to another level, as he plans to write a book on the sport.
The "Sexy back" singer has reportedly employed a literary agent to send out a short synopsis of the planned book, in the hope of securing a publishing deal.


The book ...

“Prisoner of the State" by the late Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang is still dominating the non-fiction section in the bestseller list this week while James Patterson's "Swimsuit" - the new entrant - tops the fiction group.
The top 5 in each section are: 

Non-fiction ...

Did Bangalore became the e-capital of India just because the then Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao insisted that southern states should also be a part of revolutions, since at that time Chandigarh had been befitted from Green Revolution? 
According to Gurujot Singh Khalsa, one of the ...

This book by Clare Maxfield is about the ways one person can adjust himself in the corporate world as he steps into it for the first time. 


We have all experienced the fear of the unknown. Entering the corporate world or making a transition to a new job can makes even the most confident ...

The fascinating stories of the Indian epic Mahabharata -- including the rivalry between cousins Pandavas and Kauravas, Lord Krishna and his mischievous exploits as a lad, and the Kurukshetra battle -- have been re-told for children in a new book with lots of colourful illustrations.
 

For ...

Umesh Ramakrishnan`s new book, "There is No Elevator to the Top", has been published by the Penguin-Books India in June. It compiles the success stories of CEOs of top companies like Cadbury, Schweppes, Coca-Cola, Charles Schwab, Starbucks, Dell and Fidelity and a dozen other companies ...

After denying for about a decade, the legal thriller author, John Grisham, has sold his 1999 bestseller "The Testament" to Hollywood for a movie deal.
 
The work will be optioned by producers Mark Johnson and Hunt Lowry along with 821 Entertainment Group's Eric Geadelmann and Ben ...

"The Enchantress of Florence" by Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" and the "Unaccustomed Earth" by Jhumpa Lahiri are among the fictions which have been shortlisted for the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award 2008.
 
The shortlist of the fictions was ...

Paulo Coelho's "The Winner Stands Alone" jumped seven steps this week to reach the No.1 position in the fiction section of the bestseller list, while "From Fatwa to Jihad : The Rushdie Affair And Its Legacy" by Kenan Malik stepped up four positions to dominate the non-fiction ...