Millions of books to choose from – yours will take only minutes to print

June 21, 2008

Blackwell bookshop announced yesterday that it is to install an "Espresso Book Machine" that will allow customers to print out a novel in just seven minutes.

Uganda: Religion, Rebellion Dog Fate of the Banished

June 18, 2008

APIRE, a failed student-turned-rebel, returns from his bush exploits to find his wife in the bed of a parish priest, the Rev. Fr. Dila. He executes both of them and hands himself over to the Police. This is the thematic gist of Fate of the Banished - rebellion, religion and despair.

‘Monster of Florence’: A grisly trail in idyllic Italy

June 18, 2008

When Douglas Preston moved from Maine to Florence, Italy, during the summer of 2000, he intended to write his next murder-mystery ...

Run, rabbit run

June 18, 2008

As I came around the corner from the gents’ lavatory, head down, concentrating on rebuttoning my flies, a manual skill I’ve yet to master completely, I accidentally barged into a man with a hawk perched on his arm. He was a calm, friendly man of about my age. His hawk was magnificently liveried in brown and black. It was a male Harris hawk. The man stroked the bird and spoke kindly to it to reassure it. Did he hunt with it? I asked. Well, he was only two years old, he said, and he’d been ill for a long time.

Bill Ivey sounds ‘Cultural Rights’ alarm

June 17, 2008

Conservatives and libertarians question why government is in the business of supporting the arts, however modestly, something ...

Namibia: Winning African Writer to Receive Prize in Country

June 16, 2008

Unam will co-host the presentation of the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa at a celebration ceremony and dinner to be held at the Windhoek Country Club this Thursday, it was announced in a press statement.

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