Topic: Western Europe
Blair says he may cancel London book signing after protesters in Dublin hurled shoes, eggsTony Blair said Monday that he might cancel a planned public appearance in London to promote his new memoir because of potential disruption from protesters. The former British ...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he was "desperately sorry" over the deaths in the Iraq war, in extracts released Tuesday from his memoirs. Blair said he was "sorry for the lives cut short", but maintained it was right to remove ...
Former prime minister Tony Blair, who took Britain into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, publishes his long-awaited memoirs on Wednesday but will leave for the United States as the book hits the shops. Blair has pre-recorded his first political TV interview since ...
Former prime minister Tony Blair, who took Britain into war in Iraq and Afghanistan, publishes his long-awaited memoirs on Wednesday but will leave for the United States as the book hits the shops. Blair has pre-recorded his first political TV interview since ...
Author J.K. Rowling has given 10 million pounds ($15.4 million) to set up a center to research multiple sclerosis, the disease that killed her mother. The creator of boy wizard Harry Potter said Tuesday that the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, named ...
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Faced with a life-threatening situation, would you leave behind a loved one to save yourself? This question fascinated British writer and journalist Nigel Farndale for about 25 years, ever since he heard of an acquaintance who had scrambled ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A British archivist believes he has uncovered the real-life inspiration for French novelist Victor Hugo's mysterious character Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Adrian Glew, who works on the Tate collection's archives in ...
GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life!) - One of Europe's biggest book festivals awarded prizes Friday to writers from across the Spanish-speaking world who back in their home countries often cannot read each other. Javier Sinay, who won the Rodolfo Walsh prize for non-fiction ...
GIJON, Spain (Reuters Life!) - Ian Watson, the doyen of British science fiction writing, has made what he terms "transgressive" interpretations of history in his most recent book of short stories, "The Beloved of my Beloved." Born in 1943, Watson began writing ...
ABOARD THE NOIR TRAIN, Spain (Reuters Life!) - One of Europe's biggest book fairs will aim to bring a smile to Spaniards suffering from belt-tightening by offering more events at the free-entry 10-day festival which begins on Friday. The Semana Negra (Noir ...
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