Reticent novelist Lin Zhe's wonderful panoramic tale of 20th century China is now available in an English translation.
Francis Pike's voluminous tome (860 pages, a bibliography with more than 800 entries), is a jaw-dropping feat in terms of the sheer range it covers.
At 82, veteran author Peng Jingfeng has again impressed critics with a heavy work that stems from his own experience in the turbulent war years.
With the excitement around the launch of Apple's iPad and the growing popularity of other digital devices, it is a challenge to retain the romance of the printed book, according to the head of publisher Penguin.
Seven interviews Jacqueline Kennedy gave just months after her husband was assassinated will be released for the first time in a book to be edited by her daughter.
Dublin-born poet, dramatist, wit Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde died 110 years ago, but has lost none of his power to entertain -- especially this month.
Iconic actress and sex symbol Raquel Welch had to face the process of aging doubly -- as a woman and as an international celebrity famous by her body.
Around 2 million people left the mainland in 1949 with the Kuomintang, expecting to return in five years. It's now 60 years.
When asked why he left his job as a software developer in New York, moved to Dalian to be an English teacher, and wrote his debut novel about contemporary China, global nomad Mo Zhi Hong answered simply: "Because I'm Chinese".
Veteran writer of 30 years says his new novel's characters speak to him. And yet, its central theme is one of man's constant search for someone to talk to.
A literary genre to emerge from the financial crisis is the Big Bank Biography, led by "The Partnership," Charles Ellis' history of Goldman Sachs, and several tales of the end of Bear Stearns & Co.
Horror writer Stephen King is turning his pen to a new arena -- baseball.
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