M2 Best Books articles from March 2009

M2 Best Books archives from March 2009

Unfinished novel by David Foster Wallace discovered.
March 2, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The American publishers for David Foster Wallace have confirmed that an unfinished novel by the late David Foster Wallace titled The Pale King is to be released in 2010. According to...

Faber to launch 'pay-what-you-want' ebook.
March 3, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Book publishers Faber have announced that it is to release the title What Price Liberty? by Ben Wilson as a 'pay-what-you-want' ebook, six weeks before its paperback publication. Faber...

Patterson and Marklund to collaborate on new book.
March 4, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It has been announced that crime writers James Patterson and Liza Marklund are working together on a new thriller. The crime novel, set in Stockholm but as yet untitled, is to be...

Matt Haig wins Blue Peter Book of the Year award.
March 5, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Blue Peter Book of the Year award was presented to Matt Haig for his children's book Shadow Forest in a special episode of the BBC children's TV show on Wednesday 4 March. Haig was...

UK readers' secrets are revealed in survey.
March 6, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD An online survey on the World Book Day website, held in January and February this year and released to mark World Book Day on 5 March, has found that two out of three people have claimed to...

A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr is recalled.
March 9, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Publishers Pan Macmillan have issued the immediate recall of all unsold copies Andrew Marr's best-selling book, A History of Modern Britain, for legal reasons. Erin Pizzey, a writer and...

Barack Obama nominated for British Book Awards.
March 10, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The shortlists for author and biography of the year in this year's British Book Awards both include titles by US president Barack Obama. Obama's biography, Dreams from My Father, was...

Audrey Niffenegger sells manuscript for USD5 million.
March 11, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Audrey Niffenegger, the author of The Time Traveler's Wife, has reportedly received an advance of around USD5m for the manuscript of her second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry. Scribner, a...

Welsh language novel launched as e-book.
March 12, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Ceredigion publishing firm Y Lolfa has released a Welsh language novel as an electronic book. The murder mystery, Y Llwybr (translated as The Path), is by Ceredigion author Geraint...

Roberto Bolano honoured posthumously by National Book Critics Circle.
March 13, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The late Roberto Bolano has been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his final novel, which was set in Mexico and titled '2666'. Translator Natasha Wimmeron...

Peter Kay and Paul O'Grady to publish sequels to their memoirs.
March 16, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Comedians Peter Kay and Paul O'Grady have both been given advances to write sequels to their memoirs in time for Christmas this year. The Sound of Laughter by Kay tells of his early days...

Cuba and the US work together to preserve Hemingway's manuscripts.
March 17, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Letters, manuscripts and documents belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway are being preserved in a joint venture between the Cuban National Cultural Heritage Council and the New...

Reality TV star's terminal cancer diary to be released.
March 18, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Jade Goody, who found fame on reality TV and is now suffering from terminal cancer, has signed a deal with HarperNon-Fiction for publication of a book about her final months. The book...

Seamus Heaney is awarded David Cohen Prize for Literature.
March 19, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Irish poet Seamus Heaney has been presented with the David Cohen Prize for Literature, in honour of his lifetime's work, by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion at a ceremony held at the British...

George Bush writes book on decisions he has made.
March 20, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Former US President George Bush is writing a memoir, provisionally entitled Decision Points, to be published in 2010. The book will reportedly focus on Bush's thoughts behind several...

Rock band Bon Jovi agrees book deal with HarperCollins.
March 23, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Bon Jovi, a rock band which originally achieved fame in the 1980s, has signed a book deal with publishers HarperCollins. The book is titled Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful and will be...

Crop circles interpreted in new book.
March 24, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD A controversial new book by Kenneth M Heck, The Heck Hypothesis, examines over 1000 crop circles and concludes that they are a warning that aliens intend to guide a series of comets to strike...

Al Gore to release new book on global warming.
March 25, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The subject of global warming is to be addressed once more by Al Gore. US Publishers Rodale have announced that Gore's book, Our Choice, will be printed on 100% recycled paper and will...

New biography on Ghandi to be published.
March 26, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD It has been announced that publishers Penguin India have agreed a INR10m advance to historian Ramachandra Guha for a series of six books, including his definitive Gandhi biography. Guha...

Book on fromage frais pots wins Diagram's Oddest Book Title of the Year.
March 30, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Diagram prize for the Oddest Book Title of the Year has been won by Professor Philip M Parker for 'The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais', which...

Cartoonist Robert Crumb reinterprets the Book of Genesis.
March 31, 2009... M2 BEST BOOKS-(C)2000-2009 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Satirical US cartoonist Robert Crumb has completed of his interpretation of the Book of Genesis. It has reportedly taken four years for Crumb to reinterpret the Book of Genesis, working...