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  Greek Postmen win oddest book title prize

  Sep 5 2008:

  The weirdest title of the past 30 years has been selected for the Diagram of Diagrams prize: Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers

• Books: Slow start in the shops for Caxton's latest competitor

  Sep 5 2008:

  Sony's electronic book, the Reader, holds 160 titles and hopes to be a hit with travellers

• Olympic hero's memoirs spark bidding war

  Sep 4 2008:

  Success on the cycling track may not be the obvious route to literary stardom, but Chris Hoy's three gold medals have ensured a bidding war among publishers for the Olympic champion's memoirs

• Prophet's wife novel to be released in UK

  Sep 4 2008:

  Random House pulls novel in US after receiving cautionary advice that it might be offensive to some Muslims

• Controversial 'child bride of Muhammad' novel finds UK publisher

  Sep 3 2008:

  British independent publisher Gibson Square has bought Sherry Jones's controversial novel about the child bride of Muhammad, which was dropped by Random House US after warnings that it could incite acts of violence from radical Muslims.

• John Prescott and Kama Sutra abandoned in hotel rooms

  Sep 3 2008:

  The thwarted aspirations of the man who discarded both The Kama Sutra for Dummies and How To Be a Gentleman in Seven Days in a Southampton hotel room can only be imagined, but sex manuals were just the tip of the reject pile in budget hotels this summer

• Horse Whisperer author poisoned by mushrooms

  Sep 2 2008:

  Bestselling author Nicholas Evans is in hospital in Scotland after eating poisonous mushrooms

• Publisher admits errors in 'damaging' age banding row

  Sep 1 2008:

  A leading publisher has admitted that the introduction of age banding to children's books was poorly handled.

• Sharp words: knives out in teenage prize shortlist

  Sep 1 2008:

  Knife crime, gang violence and a brutal murder are on the shortlist for the 2008 Booktrust teenage prize, announced earlier today

• 'Wives are to blame' if husbands cheat

  Aug 31 2008:

  Family counsellor turned author causes outrage by telling women how to keep companions faithful

• Internet leak brings end to US cult book series

  Aug 31 2008:

  Stephenie Meyer's 'Midnight Sun' may now not be completed after unfinished edition leaked

• The browser

  Aug 31 2008:

  Burns is on fire | P-p-pick up with Penguin | Rich list

• Publishing: Bloomsbury counts on sage of Omaha after wizard

  Aug 30 2008:

  Bloomsbury settling into life without Harry Potter with a list of Christmas books that includes a lavish new cookbook

• Walkers toast Country Diary collection

  Aug 30 2008:

  80-strong posse of enthusiasts celebrate launch of first collection by female contributors

• American literary prize blacklists Random House

  Aug 29 2008:

  An American book prize has blacklisted Random House following its "cowardly self-censorship" of Sherry Jones's novel The Jewel of Medina.

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