British Books

Google UK Honors Jane Austen's Birthday With Doodle (PHOTO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Google honored the British novelist Jane Austen today with an illustrated logo on the splash page for its UK site. Austen, born 235 years go today on ...

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How a Beefeater and a Tortoise Captured America's Attention

Julia Stuart | Posted 05.25.2011

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Julia Stuart

In all my escapist reveries I never imagined the amazing response that my second novel, The Tower, the Zoo and the Tortoise would receive in America.

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Celebrity Books Popularity Fading In UK: What About USA?

The London Times | Tom Baldwin and Tim Glanfield | Posted 05.25.2011

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The lustre of celebrity memoirs, possibly the most reviled literary genre in history, is fading as publishers voice their alarm over returns from book...

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