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Writer Soad Suleiman, who won the Juan Carlos Spanish award for short stories, said the prize was a surprise to…

Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling on Monday praised the casting of a black actress to play the wizard's sidekick Hermione…

Three projects based on William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy are currently in the works in Hollywood. In addition to an ABC…

Bookseller Barnes & Noble has released its picks for the top books of 2015, in categories that include the best…

A century and a half after first being published, the surreal classic "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" still fascinates readers and…

Oprah Winfrey will publish her memoirs in a new book deal according to The Hollywood Reporter. The US talk show host…

Quentin Tarantino has nothing on William Shakespeare – there are 74 onstage deaths in the Bard's plays, according to a…

The Egyptian novelist and critic Edward Al-Kharrat died on Tuesday at the age 89 from complications due to pneumonia. Al-Kharrat…

Avid readers will no doubt already have sampled some of the year's best-sellers. So, when searching for gift ideas for…

They may be athletes, businessmen or politicians but the minute they are jailed, Romanian convicts often morph into "men of…