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Showbiz: Actress Helen Lederer helps launch short books for adult literacy campaign (1/26/2012 2:27:29 AM) Absolutely Fabulous star Helen Lederer was among writers at the Senedd yesterday for the launch of a series of books designed to attract new readers. Elocution lessons: Who wants to speak the Queen's English? (1/25/2012 4:24:06 AM) As the commercial director of one of the country's largest book-wholesaling companies, Annette Burgess makes an unlikely Eliza Doolittle. At the age of 44, she is responsible for a sales team that supplies books to the National Trust, Hamleys and hundreds of garden centres. Yet this successful bookseller shares one thing in common with the cockney flower-selling heroine of Pygmalion and My Fair Lady: she has taken up elocution lessons. Simon Doonan: New York's favourite gay man (1/24/2012 1:04:10 AM) Since discovering his second vocation a decade ago, at 49, Simon Doonan has become a fixture on the New York scene. His books of wry, bitchy social observation are bestsellers. He writes a column for Slate.com. He delivers caustic one-liners on sheeny TV shows like Gossip Girl and America's Next Top Model. Madonna is a fan. So is Joan Rivers. And Malcolm Gladwell, the wiggy genius author of The Tipping Point. Simon has a day job at Barneys New York, the ritzy department store, of which more later. Run his name on Google Images and you'll find snaps of him sharing jokes with the cream of Manhattan's exhibitionists, in a seemingly inexhaustible succession of explosive floral chemises. Not bad, on the whole, for a British window dresser from Reading. Aircraft leasing: Buy or rent? (1/23/2012 5:30:19 AM) THERE is a saying in the transport business that if it flies or floats, you should rent it (there are also much ruder versions of this epigram). Nevertheless, airlines have traditionally bought their planes, even if many purchases were arranged as “finance leases”, with the instalments dressed up as rent payments so as to make them tax-deductible. However, airlines are turning increasingly to “operating” leases, in which they really are renting the planes, for a few years at a time, with a leasing company bearing the risk of any slump in their second-hand values. Over a third of the world’s airline fleet is now rented (see chart) and the proportion is likely to keep growing. Paul Sheridan of Ascend, an aviation consultancy, reckons that of the world’s top four owners of airliners, two are lessors: GECAS, with 1,732 planes, and ILFC, with 1,031, soar miles above Delta (800) and American Airlines (775). A chunk of the aircraftmakers’ bulging order books is from leasing Tougher theory test for drivers to stop candidates learning answers by rote (1/23/2012 3:44:39 AM) From today theory test will be made up of multiple-choice questions which, unlike in the past, will no longer be published in advance and in their exact form in books and other electronic learning materials. VIDEO: Scotland's secret artist mystery (1/22/2012 7:03:07 PM) Delicate sculptures created from books have been appearing across Edinburgh by an artist who is keeping their identity a closely-guarded secret. Dundee Utd: Cheeky Johnny Russell tries to save Stephen Craigan's blushes by claiming goal against Motherwell (1/22/2012 9:48:54 AM) JOHNNY RUSSELL would love to scrub own goal scapegoat Stephen Craigan from the record books as he tried to claim United's goal. Weaver: 'All films will eventually be 3D' (1/20/2012 5:04:24 PM) SIGOURNEY WEAVER is convinced 2D films will soon be banished to the history books in the same way as black and white movies. Pearson on Apple's e-textbooks (1/20/2012 11:43:55 AM) Pearson on efforts to promote digital books in the classroom Apple iBooks Author: Apple announces free book creation software, to let anyone create high-gloss colour eBooks (1/20/2012 5:23:36 AM) At Apple's New York education event, the technology giant has unveiled a new do-it-yourself iBooks Author app which lets anyone create rich, visual books full of pictures, video and interactive elements. Don't judge a book by its cover: Well-read artist creates incredible landscapes out of historic tomes (1/20/2012 2:24:00 AM) French-Canadian artist Guy Laramee, 54, made the amazing artwork by sand blasting and carving books into shapes. UK Government's NHS Reforms - Anyone Understand Them? Professor Asks (1/18/2012 10:23:43 PM) Even though Professor Martin McKee, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has 25 years of experience in researching health systems, including writing more than 30 books and 500 academic papers, he states in a personal view published on bmj.com today that he still does not understand the government's plan for the NHS, saying: "I have tried very hard, as have some of my cleverer colleagues, but no matter how hard we try, we always end up concluding that the bill means something quite different from what the secretary of state says it does... Senior Professor Asks If Anyone Understands The Government's NHS Reforms (1/18/2012 2:43:55 PM) Despite 25 years of experience researching health systems, including writing over 30 books and 500 academic papers, Professor Martin McKee from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says he still can't understand the government's plan for the NHS. In a Personal View published on bmj.com, he writes: "I have tried very hard, as have some of my cleverer colleagues, but no matter how hard we try, we always end up concluding that the bill means something quite different from what the secretary of state says it does... Schama, Fellowes, and the 'cultural necrophilia' row that would make Lady Grantham grimace (1/18/2012 12:23:36 AM) Lord Grantham would describe it as the height of bad manners. American viewers have been urged to reject Downton Abbey's "silvered tureen of snobbery" by Simon Schama, the British history professor whose populist books have made him a New York celebrity.Related StoriesIt's still grim up North if you want to get a job at the BBC Bloomsbury serves festive winners (1/17/2012 10:43:44 PM) TV CHEF Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall showed there is plenty of life left in traditional printed books despite the electronic revolution sweeping the publishing industry. VIDEO: Questions over UFO book politician (1/17/2012 6:44:06 PM) A Conservative politician who was in line to succeed an outgoing MEP is under scrutiny by his own party over his books on UFOs and aliens. Publisher’s recipe for success has a mix of cook books and ebooks (1/17/2012 12:27:54 PM) BEST-SELLING cook books and further magic from Harry Potter helped publisher Bloomsbury report strong sales for its Christmas trading quarter. Hitler: Did Uncle Tom's Cabin book make Adolf a nicer person? (1/17/2012 1:03:37 AM) CRAIG BROWN: The conclusion of a study published in Scientific American Mind is the that reading books makes you a nicer person. It didn't seem to work for Hitler.. Students rack up £1m in library fines (1/15/2012 11:46:55 PM) Kingston University students denied they were among the laziest in Britain, despite being charged more than £1m for returning library books late. An über-review of the crisis: The Lo down (1/13/2012 12:08:23 PM) IT BEGAN as a review of three books on the financial crisis for a wonky journal. Currently, the book count stands at 21 and although the official publication date is still in the future, the draft* already has a life of its own in policymaking circles.In 2010 Andrew Lo, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, was asked by the Journal of Economic Literature to write a review of three or four of the more important academic books on the crisis. The initial sample, he thought, was too small. There were lots of useful books on the topic, from journalists as well as academics. Widening the spectrum would also highlight areas of disagreement between authors.In that, he certainly succeeded. Among the more minor debates is when the crisis began: was it 2006, when America’s housing market peaked; 2007, when money-market liquidity froze; or 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed? But the biggest source of contention is over what caused the wheels to fall off. Several of Hypnotist Paul McKenna reveals how Scots radio legend Richard Park gave him career boost (1/13/2012 10:07:22 AM) HE’S made millions from TV hypnotism and self-improvement books and enjoys the trappings of fame in a luxury home in America. Medieval 'chained' books cleaned (1/12/2012 7:03:59 PM) How do how do you clean 1,500 books chained to shelves? Author admits to female alter ego (1/12/2012 8:24:08 AM) Boris Akunin, the Russian author of the Erast Fandorin detective series, reveals he has written several books under the female pseudonym Anna Borisova. VIDEO: Firefighters in world record bid (1/9/2012 2:04:54 PM) Firefighters in a North Yorkshire village said they hoped to win a place in the record books as the brigade with the smallest fire station in the world. Chinese authors sue Apple for copyright infringement: report (1/9/2012 9:43:56 AM) SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A group of Chinese authors has sued Apple Inc for 11.9 million yuan ($1.9 million) in compensation for allegedly providing copyright-infringing books for download through its online store, Chinese financial magazine Caixin reported. Stamps to honour Dahl characters (1/9/2012 9:23:52 AM) A series of stamps celebrating Roald Dahl's classic children's books is being released by the Royal Mail. Students meet controversial poet laureate (1/8/2012 12:08:03 PM) Poetry-mad sixth formers received personally dedicated books when they attended a reading by the poet laureate. Reading crisis means one in six children miss the magic of Harry Potter (1/7/2012 3:44:03 AM) Schools Minister Nick Gibb (pictured) said primary pupils were unable to enjoy books such as Harry Potter and the Narnia series because they 'haven’t learnt to read properly'. Ombudsman warns over record number of unresolved PPI mis-selling cases (1/6/2012 6:04:10 PM) The Financial Ombudsman Service said it has 130,000 cases on its books in the financial year 2012/13 – up from 109,500 this financial year and more than double the 60,000 PPI cases resolved in 2010/11. Schumpeter: The dangers of demonology (1/6/2012 9:28:23 AM) HURLING brickbats at bankers is a popular pastime. The “Occupy Wall Street” movement and its various offshoots complain that a malign 1%, many of them bankers, are ripping off the virtuous 99%. Hollywood has vilified financiers in “Wall Street”, “Wall Street 2”, “Too Big to Fail” and “Margin Call”. Mountains of books make the same point without using Michael Douglas.Anger is understandable. The financial crisis of 2007-08 has produced the deepest recession since the 1930s. Most of the financiers at the heart of it have got off scot-free. The biggest banks are bigger than ever. Bonuses are flowing once again. The old saw about bankers—that they believe in capitalism when it comes to pocketing the profits and socialism when it comes to paying for the losses—is too true for comfort.But is the backlash in danger of going too far? Could fair criticism warp into ugly prejudice? And could ugly prejudice produce prosperity-destroying policies? A glance at history suggests t Bank capital: Half-cocked Basel (1/6/2012 1:08:44 AM) THE NEW-YEAR hangover throbbed agonisingly for investment bankers this year. Blame Basel 2.5, a new set of international rules which charges banks higher capital for the risks they run in their trading books (as opposed to their banking books, where they keep assets that they intend to hold to maturity). Those charges were too low before. And heaping higher costs on banks should please politicians and Joe Public. But they add another layer of complexity to banks’ risk management.Basel 2.5 came into force on December 31st in most European and major world financial jurisdictions. Switzerland applied the rules a year early, and the costs are substantial. Third-quarter figures for Credit Suisse show a 28% increase in risk-weighted assets, and hence capital charges, for its investment-banking activities purely because of Basel 2.5.The most notable laggard is America. US financial regulators do not oppose Basel 2.5, but it clashes with the Dodd-Frank act, America’s big wet blanket of a finan Tom Sutcliffe: When collector's items turn to clutter (1/6/2012 12:24:14 AM) I cleared out my library over Christmas – or rather trimmed and tidied it, nervous that the increasing stacks of books on the floor were hazardously close to tipping its condition from "studiously cluttered" to "Channel 4 hoarder-documentary". A year of unrestrained growth and ill-disciplined browsing had steadily diminished its utility and pleasure. Quite often, I'd know that somewhere in the chaos there was a specific title that would be of use to me, but I wouldn't have the time to hunt it down. And the sense of being surrounded by books was coming to be tinged by a certain paranoia. They didn't neatly furnish the room anymore, a wallpaper of proxy erudition: they were beginning to mass, like the birds behind Tippi Hedren in that famous scene in the Hitchcock movie. It was clear that a cull was overdue. Internazionale enter the race for Tevez (1/5/2012 2:44:03 AM) Manchester City's attempts to get Carlos Tevez off their books this month have been boosted by a move by Internazionale, while discussions also resumed yesterday between the player's representatives and Milan. Manufacturing output expected to fall further (1/4/2012 9:47:03 PM) UK manufacturers reported a further slight weakening in total order books in December 2011 while export orders remained well below their long-run average, the CBI says. Read more... League says Winter Classic in high demand (1/3/2012 8:44:17 PM) PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - With another successful Winter Classic in the books the National Hockey League (NHL) woke up on Tuesday and did what it has each of the last five years, pat itself on the back and think about what to do as an encore for the outdoor game. Why the AFC Wild Card round could provide the story of the season (1/3/2012 10:27:23 AM) With Week 17 in the books and the playoff spots decided, the NFL remains entirely unpredictable. While some things are certain – that the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers will sizzle and score by the bucket load on offence; that the Pittsburgh Steelers will play tough and find a way to get it done – every year is filled with surprises. Driving test books most popular at libraries (1/3/2012 10:27:22 AM) DRIVING test theory books were among the most borrowed items from libraries in Peterborough in 2011. 2012: Time to turn over a new leaf (1/3/2012 1:43:53 AM) CHARLOTTE Heathcote looks forward to some of the books you could be reading this year SPL: Motherwell ace Tom Hateley keen to kick-start 2012 with win over Rangers (1/1/2012 12:27:57 PM) TOM HATELEY is determined to banish the memory of Motherwell’s sub-par show at Hearts by winning at Ibrox – even though the history books are against the Steelmen. Ralph Fiennes reveals his passion for James Bond.. and Shakespeare (1/1/2012 12:27:55 PM) EXCLUSIVE: WHEN he was young, Ralph Fiennes was so shaken and stirred by Ian Fleming’s James Bond books that he became an expert on 007. SPL: Inverness ace Gregory Tade hails team-mate Jonny Hayes but insists he'll finish top scorer (1/1/2012 9:28:32 AM) GREGORY TADE’S pals in France reckon Caley Thistle have the next Messi on their books - after watching Jonny Hayes wonder goal against Hibs. Look ahead to 2012 (12/31/2011 9:24:02 PM) What to look out for in film, TV, books and music Audiobook service to start at libraries (12/29/2011 4:27:53 AM) BOOK enthusiasts will soon be able to download a wide selection of books from Stanground and Woodston libraries. Success Story: Phenomenal Rise Of eBooks (12/28/2011 7:07:23 AM) The phenomenal rise in the number of people choosing to read books on electronic devices is expected to continue over the next year. Wellbeing: Warning: Celeb diets can harm your health (12/26/2011 5:28:53 PM) The start of 2012 will see tens of thousands of men and women reaching for the diet books in a new year frenzy to lose weight. The British Dietetic Association offers a word of caution about following a celebrity-endorsed diet Bala: Warning: Celeb diets can harm your health (12/26/2011 7:30:04 AM) The start of 2012 will see tens of thousands of men and women reaching for the diet books in a new year frenzy to lose weight. The British Dietetic Association offers a word of caution about following a celebrity-endorsed diet The 12 most-read 2011 articles in Art & Entertainment (12/24/2011 4:44:08 AM) Every day, The Independent's Arts & Entertainment channel is packed full of news, features reviews in its film, music, classical, visual arts, architecture, television & radio, theatre & dance, comedy and books sub sections. The Arabic textbooks which show children how to chop off hands and feet under Sharia law (12/24/2011 1:05:03 AM) The shocking books (pictured) are paid for and printed by the Saudi government and also say Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'. Review - Swallows and Amazons (12/23/2011 6:24:12 AM) ANYONE reared on Arthur Ransome's between-the-wars sailing books knows that adapting them has always been tricky. VIDEO: Actor boosts libraries campaign (12/22/2011 11:05:04 PM) Actor Simon Callow has donated almost 1,000 of his own books to a central London library as part of a campaign to support libraries which are under threat from local budget cuts. The political books of 2011 (12/22/2011 2:04:04 AM) Our round-up of the top political books of 2011 Dickens: Nightmare before Christmas (12/21/2011 12:44:04 AM) When I was asked to choose one of Charles Dickens's books to write about for BBC Radio 3's The Essay series on "the Writer's Dickens", I immediately picked A Christmas Carol, because Dickens's love of Christmas has always intrigued me. It came as a surprise to learn that A Christmas Carol is his most read book and that "Bah! Humbug!" is the best-known phrase in all his work. Cambridge app guns for US’ ‘wild’ West (12/20/2011 12:28:03 PM) ViewRanger, the award-winning outdoor navigation app created in Cambridge, has forged a partnership in the US with Menasha Ridge/Wilderness Press – a leading publisher of comprehensive outdoor hiking books and maps. Read more... Cambridge app guns for US’ ‘wild’ West (12/20/2011 12:28:03 PM) ViewRanger, the award-winning outdoor navigation app created in Cambridge, has forged a partnership in the US with Menasha Ridge/Wilderness Press – a leading publisher of comprehensive outdoor hiking books and maps. Read more... Czech mourning for Vaclav Havel (12/19/2011 3:24:13 PM) Mourners sign condolence books for late Czech leader Vaclav Havel and file past his closed coffin in Prague. We Others: New and Selected Stories, By Steven Millhauser (12/14/2011 3:44:13 AM) Spanning three decades, Steven Millhauser's We Others is the summation of a literary life that has – despite a Pulitzer Prize and a Hollywood adaptation of his story "Eisenheim the Illusionist" – refused to translate across the Atlantic. All his fiction has dropped out of print here, while his last two books failed even to find a UK publisher. We Others goes some way to redressing the balance, though whether this is the book to endear a British readership is far from certain. Morgan Stanley settles with MBIA, sees $1.8 billion charge (12/13/2011 4:26:06 PM) (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley and MBIA Inc have agreed to a settlement that will remove some risky derivative contracts from the bank's books and end lawsuits the two parties had filed against one another. Science: Reach for the stars...or you could just settle for Dr Cox (12/13/2011 8:44:03 AM) Popular science books range from complex theoretical texts to glossy coffee table tomes, but it's unusual to have an example from each end of the spectrum contributed by the same author. Local order books buck downbeat trend in contracts (12/12/2011 1:08:33 PM) PETERBOROUGH is bucking the downbeat national trend in manufacturing by showing healthy order books into the first quarter of 2012. Bala: Wrexham publishing house taps into our love of history (12/12/2011 10:48:23 AM) THE cancelling of last week’s Christmas Market in Wrexham due to high winds was a blow to Alister Williams – he is the man behind Wrexham publishing house Bridge Books and hoped to have a stall there. North Wales News: Wrexham publishing house taps into our love of history (12/12/2011 8:47:24 AM) THE cancelling of last week’s Christmas Market in Wrexham due to high winds was a blow to Alister Williams – he is the man behind Wrexham publishing house Bridge Books and hoped to have a stall there. Essential guide to best books of 2011 (12/11/2011 10:23:42 AM) TAKE Christmas gift inspiration from Charlotte Heathcote and David Connett's favourite books of the year Music: I bet you think this book is about you... (12/11/2011 12:44:01 AM) The epic scope and forensic attention to detail of Dan Charnas's The Big Payback (New American Library, £15.99) make it a landmark history of the industrialisation of rap – not only the most compelling pop publication of the year, but also one of the best books ever written about hip hop. MSPs splash £50 on boat hire and a map plus £270 for ?free' information (12/9/2011 1:03:53 AM) SHAMELESS MSPs have billed the taxpayer for tea, biscuits, books and TV licences. Apple and five publishers under e-book investigation for price-fixing (12/7/2011 12:44:03 PM) Apple and five of the world’s biggest publishers are under investigation for colluding to push up the price of electronic books by as much as 50 per cent. Council has library book amnesty (12/6/2011 10:03:52 AM) Scotland's smallest council has started a library book amnesty to get back more than 5,300 overdue books - including a guide to improving ones memory. Science book treasures go on show (12/5/2011 5:44:03 PM) Remarkable books from the Royal Society's collection go on show James Daunt: 'Amazon are a ruthless, money-making devil, the consumer's enemy' (12/5/2011 12:24:05 AM) December is the month the nation's booksellers go into overdrive. With Christmas twinkling like a Lottery win, they will probably shift more books in the next three weeks than in the other 11 months together. After a sluggish autumn, the signs are encouraging: The Bookseller reported on Tuesday that week-on-week sales of printed book have soared by £5.5m compared with 2011, as shoppers realised the time to purchase Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child for their brother-in-law and the new biography of Dickens for their dad had finally arrived. Theatre review - A Round-Heeled Woman, Aldwych Theatre, London (12/2/2011 2:44:46 AM) AROUND the turn of the millennium a retired San Francisco teacher called Jane Juska placed a small ad in the New York Review of Books declaring: "Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me." Marc Maron: Live from the comedy garage (12/2/2011 12:44:22 AM) In a spider-ridden Los Angeles garage, surrounded by half-read self-help books and the whiff of stale cat's-pee, a stand-up comedian called Marc Maron has for the past two years been taking listeners on a twice-weekly journey behind the red velvet curtains of his profession. Abduction, By Anouar Benmalek, trans. Simon Pare (12/2/2011 12:44:22 AM) Ever since Camus, and perhaps in an inevitable reaction to his pessimism, Algeria has specialised in producing writers whose works are both hopeful and ripe with horror. The post-Independence Algerian novel is unmistakable: it will be engagé, unrelentingly violent, and its plot will gyrate around either the revolution (1954-1962) or the civil war (1992-2002). This is not to say that these books are predictable; in fact quite the opposite. Reagan Shooter Hinckley Wants More Freedom (12/1/2011 8:46:52 AM) The man who tried to kill President Ronald Reagan has launched a legal bid to spend more time away from his mental hospital - but prosecutors say he was recently spotted browsing books on his one-time target. Nazi games for boys and girls (12/1/2011 7:24:02 AM) Nazi toys and children's books find a new home Last night's viewing - Digging the Great Escape, Channel 4; Desperate Scousewives, E4 (11/30/2011 11:44:13 PM) A few years ago, the Imperial War Museum put on an exhibition about PoW escapees and while I was wandering around the press view it suddenly dawned on me that the old men bent over the display cases had a proprietary interest in the contents. I realised they were surviving escapers, there to give cheerful interviews to any journalists who were interested. And I confess I found myself a bit choked. For anyone who'd grown up on Pat Reid's Colditz books and Paul Brickhill's account of the Great Escape, it was a bit like bumping into Achilles or Troilus, figures of legend suddenly come to life. Which is a long-winded way of saying that I may not be the most dispassionate judge of Digging the Great Escape, Channel 4's film about excavations at the site of Stalag Luft III. If truth be told it was a slightly dull and anti-climactic film, but it couldn't stifle the romance of the story it told, and it effectively enlarged your respect for the men who had to do their digging in secret. VIDEO: Quentin Blake wins Designers Prize (11/30/2011 6:04:12 PM) Quentin Blake, famous for his illustrations of the books of Roald Dahl, has won the 2011 Prince Philip Designers Prize. Court giggling! President Obama and first lady Michelle laugh their way through basketball game (11/27/2011 1:04:13 PM) The first family flew from the White House in Marine One to Towson University in Maryland after buying books at a small DC book store in support of Small Business Saturday. How It All Began, By Penelope Lively (11/27/2011 12:44:03 AM) When Julian Barnes won the 2011 Man Booker Prize in October, he told a press conference: "Penelope Lively's last four books are four of the best post-war English novels. I'd have given [the prize] to her four times." Eating in: Edwardian Christmas recipes (11/26/2011 8:47:02 AM) THESE delicious cakes would have been baked at Christmas in Edwardian times. The recipes were passed down from old family cook books to the sisters who now run the tea room at Newton House, Dinefwr. Strike Rochdale from the record books. The Co-op began in Scotland (11/25/2011 3:27:52 AM) Its famous four-letter logo and revolutionary system of profit-sharing - the "divi" - made the Co-op a high street institution, and generations of schoolchildren have been taught that it began in a humble store on Toad Lane in Rochdale. Now two historians claim the history books are wrong: the cooperative movement was born nearly 240 years ago in a barely-furnished cottage in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, when local weavers manhandled a sack of oatmeal into John Walker's whitewashed front room and began selling the contents at a discount. It is here, according to a document they unearthed, that the world's first co-op was founded, 230 miles north of the accepted home of the Co-op. Fenwick's pre-eminence has been overlooked, locals say, in favour of the English town where the Rochdale Pioneers opened their store 83 years later. The Fenwick Weaver's Society, 1716. Scotland. Poetry: Raising the lyrical stakes (11/25/2011 1:24:13 AM) Canny publishers make sure their authors aren't overshadowed by competition. Since 2010 was dominated by inevitably prize-winning poetry collections from two Nobel laureates, it's no surprise that 2011 has seen a rich rebound, with important books appearing from several of our most exciting poets. JK Rowling tells Leveson inquiry of her struggles with fame (11/25/2011 12:08:22 AM) jk Rowling yesterday told how she has struggled to cope with fame since her Harry Potter books propelled her into the media spotlight. Strike Rochdale from the record books. The Co-op began in Scotland (11/24/2011 11:08:14 PM) Its famous four-letter logo and revolutionary system of profit-sharing - the "divi" - made the Co-op a high street institution, and generations of schoolchildren have been taught that it began in a humble store on Toad Lane in Rochdale. Now two historians claim the history books are wrong: the cooperative movement was born nearly 240 years ago in a barely-furnished cottage in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, when local weavers manhandled a sack of oatmeal into John Walker's whitewashed front room and began selling the contents at a discount. It is here, according to a document they unearthed, that the world's first co-op was founded, 230 miles north of the accepted home of the Co-op. Fenwick's pre-eminence has been overlooked, locals say, in favour of the English town where the Rochdale Pioneers opened their store 83 years later. The Fenwick Weaver's Society, 1716. Scotland. In pictures: Children's book art (11/24/2011 5:04:32 PM) Illustrations from children's books go on show Swansea coastguard closure will 'put lives at risk' (11/22/2011 9:49:32 PM) Confirmation coastguard services will no longer be coordinated from Swansea is condemned as putting 'balancing the books before maritime safety'. Is a printed photo album really a book? VAT row costs taxpayer £1m (11/20/2011 4:44:12 AM) A tax court has ruled that HM Revenue & Customs should not have charged photo-processing firm Truprint £545,800 in VAT for selling the printed and bound books of favourite pictures which can be ordered online. Kindle Fire tablet selling for $3 less than it costs Amazon to manufacture (11/19/2011 9:24:03 AM) The online retailer is initially selling the hugely-anticipated $199 Kindle Fire tablet at a loss that it hopes to cover through sales of books and films for the device, research suggests. T.C. Boyle discusses "The Lie" in movies (11/18/2011 9:24:12 PM) LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - T. Coraghessan Boyle has been entertaining readers for more than 30 years with such books as "Water Music" and "World's End," winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Y-fronts record a real work of art (11/17/2011 6:07:54 PM) A giant pair of pants has gone into the record books after 57 people squeezed into the Y-fronts to celebrate Guinness World Records Day. Y-fronts record a real work of art (11/17/2011 6:07:54 PM) A giant pair of pants has gone into the record books after 57 people squeezed into the Y-fronts to celebrate Guinness World Records Day. Down the cakehole: Cookery book swap (11/17/2011 4:08:25 PM) Tweeters, dust your shelves and pull out your best cookery books because the Coach & Horses pub in Clerkenwell has launched the #charitycookerybookexchange Want to be a Kindle millionaire? Write novels about trolls (11/17/2011 1:24:03 PM) This week, an unknown American author called Amanda Hocking joins an elite literary club alongside just 11 others – including Stieg Larsson, James Patterson and Nora Roberts – by racking up her millionth Kindle sale. Unknown is of course a relative term in this case – no one can shift that many books by remaining anonymous – but Hocking is unusual because she has sold all her books on Kindle. Entirely self-published, her first physical book doesn't reach traditional bookshops until January 2012. Shadowstory by Jennifer Johnston (11/16/2011 2:24:13 PM) JENNIFER Johnston is masterly at creating atmosphere and evoking period and place. she's steeped in the writing of ireland and her books bring to mind other irish craftsmen such as William trevor and the late Josephine hart. she shares their gift for conveying a great deal in a few words. England v Sweden: England's 2,000th goal (11/15/2011 1:43:43 AM) One Englishman has the chance to write his name in the history books when they take on Sweden. Whoever is first to breach the opponents defence will have scored England's 2,000th goal. David Frith: 'Cricket has its dark secrets, its skeletons' (11/15/2011 12:44:03 AM) There is something creepy about all this. Just over 20 years ago I felt compelled to write the first major study of suicide among cricketers, a book which simply demanded to be written. Among my countless files, the shoebox containing cuttings and research notes concerning self-destruction in cricket was near to overflowing. Whatever was going on here? The poor souls who had destroyed themselves were not mostly from the Victorian era, as had traditionally been believed. There seemed to be a steady trickle of tragedy, and somebody had to look into it. It was the most difficult of books to write, but I felt it incumbent upon myself to get it written and perhaps to draw some sort of illuminating conclusion. Most of all, I hoped somehow that tragic flow could be stemmed. Theatre: Terry Deary on why he won’t be writing any more Horrible Histories (11/14/2011 6:26:53 AM) Horrible Histories are among the most successful children’s books ever published but author Terry Deary is handing over the baton. He chats to Karen Price about running and writing The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution, By Keith Devlin (11/14/2011 5:24:06 AM) Fibonacci Numbers are increasingly fashionable. Architects weave them into their buildings, and they figure heavily in books on the rapidly developing science of form in nature. iPhone apps to decide celebrity Christmas cookbook battle (11/13/2011 5:44:59 PM) With new recipes from Heston Blumenthal, Gordon Ramsay, Rick Stein and Lorraine Pascale, the battle of the Christmas cookery books is set to be a fierce contest between some of Britain's best chefs. A beginning, a middle, but no end in sight (11/13/2011 1:04:06 AM) "A book is bounded. It has a beginning and an ending and a discoverable way of knowing that you've read the whole thing." Theo Gray is the author of The Elements, the elegant iPad bookapp that launched simultaneously with Apple's device and founder and creative director of digital book publisher Touch Press. He's offering his definition of a book and explaining the differences between books and websites. A major one for Gray - a mathematically-inclined visionary who speaks in flowcharts -is that you finish a book. Websites, like space, can go on forever. The Blagger's Guide To...Nancy Mitford (11/13/2011 12:44:03 AM) Some books are best filed under the category of "snobbery". Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British, By Jeremy Paxman (11/13/2011 12:44:03 AM) The sub-titles of history books are usually more useful to readers than the main titles, which simply give a general location to the book's content.