Topic: Book Reviews
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Richard Branson -- swashbuckling billionaire entrepreneur, sportsman and activist -- is accustomed to speaking his mind. Ask the employees and customers of his Virgin group of more than 400 companies around the world.From records to airlines, mobile phones ...
A book written by the Japanese man who raped and killed young teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker is to be made into a movie, the producer said Friday.Tatsuya Ichihashi spent more than two-and-a-half years on the run after the brutal 2007 killing and ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Charles Frazier's novel "Cold Mountain" was a bestselling and critical phenomenon in 1996 and later became an Academy Award-winning movie, which is not bad considering it was the 46-year-old's debut.Ten years later, the North Carolina native returned to ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, whose "Wolf Hall" retold the life and thoughts of Thomas Cromwell, is planning not one sequel, but two, she said in an interview published on Friday.The 59-year-old revealed she was planning a follow-up to ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Into a traditional northern New England town under pressure from chain stores and cell phone towers, its old family farms struggling, comes Hattie Kong, half-Chinese and newly widowed.Soon she is joined by the teenaged daughter of a Cambodian immigrant ...
"THIS is what a market bottom in copper feels like""THIS is what a market bottom in copper feels like," I told Brett Eversole on October 20. Brett has worked right next to me for over a year... And he's never heard me ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - It was a fairy tale romance that turned in to a stormy marriage, and now Dyan Cannon has chronicled her relationship with Hollywood legend Cary Grant in her new book, "Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant."With an ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the first female executive editor of The New York Times in the newspaper's 160-year history, Jill Abramson is at the pinnacle of the media world.But just as she is starting in the top job at the Times, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - James Palumbo is best known as the co-founder of Ministry of Sound, the music and nightclub business that claims to be the world's largest independent record company.But, for the time being at least, he is swapping the beats for ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - British author Glen Duncan has published seven critically acclaimed novels, often exploring touchy topics such as violence and perversity as well as love and morality.He has employed the fantastic -- in his earlier book "I, Lucifer" the devil ...
