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Heading Down Under where locals are "dry as a dead dingo's donger" and beachgoers don "budgie smugglers"?

• 25 августа 2016, 17:19

Jamaican author Marlon James won the Man Booker Prize for best novel for "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a re-telling of the attempted assassination of musician Bob Marley.

• 14 октября 2015, 15:29

The hugely successful "Twilight" vampire romance series is marking its 10th anniversary with a twist -- a gender swap.

• 07 октября 2015, 13:47

Agatha Christie fans have descended on her hometown of Torquay on the English Riviera for the 125th anniversary of the murder master's birth.

• 16 сентября 2015, 15:26

Popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's new book has gone on sale, with a major domestic bookstore chain buying 90 percent of the initial print run in a direct challenge to online rivals.

• 11 сентября 2015, 16:58

The eagerly-awaited sequel to Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium crime trilogy hit store shelves in 25 countries.

• 27 августа 2015, 13:40

Kiev's public relations war with Moscow scaled new heights as Ukraine released a list of prominent Russian reporters and authors whose books will be banned from sale.

• 13 августа 2015, 12:14

Bookstores opened at midnight when copies of Harper Lee's eagerly awaited, but controversial second novel flew off the shelves more than half a century after the groundbreaking success of "To Kill a Mockingbird."

• 14 июля 2015, 13:53

A long-lost notebook owned by British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing sold at auction in New York on Monday for $1 million.

• 14 апреля 2015, 13:55

Books on Islam are selling out in France after deadly extremist attacks in the capital raised uncomfortable questions about Europe's fastest-growing religion.

• 04 апреля 2015, 14:19

Fantasy novelist George R. R. Martin has released a chapter from his upcoming next book in the series on which hit television show "Game of Thrones" is based.

• 04 апреля 2015, 10:35

Submerged in his new novel, Turkey's Nobel prize laureate Orhan Pamuk gazes out over the city of Istanbul, the main protagonist of his books.

• 14 февраля 2015, 14:44

Publisher Hachette and Amazon ended an acrimonious feud over online book sales.

• 14 ноября 2014, 13:39

Marvel unveiled plans for a slate of new superhero films, expanding its already wildly successful comic book universe.

• 29 октября 2014, 14:34

US online retail giant Amazon may be absent from the stands at the world's biggest book fair but it has still been at the heart of a heated debate.

• 11 октября 2014, 14:54

The life of billionaire Facebook executive and "Lean In" author Sheryl Sandberg has been distilled into a 32-page comic book set for release this week.

• 23 сентября 2014, 13:15

A near-flawless edition of the first book featuring cartoon hero Superman from June 1938 has fetched $3.2 million at auction.

• 26 августа 2014, 10:43

Bird houses for bookcrossing have been installed in parks of Almaty, a large southern city of Kazakhstan.

• 13 августа 2014, 10:57

Hachette Book Group defended itself against accusations of pushing up prices for e-books amid a dispute with online retail giant Amazon.

• 11 августа 2014, 10:21

Former US president George W. Bush has written a "personal biography" of his presidential father, said Crown publishers, which announced it will release the book in November.

• 31 июля 2014, 13:11