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Salman Rushdie is a scruffy, tight-fisted, rude and arrogant man. At least that’s what Ron Evans, his former bodyguard explains in a tell all book entitled On Her Majesty’s Service. Of the evening out at the pub, he said: “The original team with Scruffy got so fed up with his attitude that they locked him [...]

New York Times reporter David Carr has written the latest “misery memoir,” an expose on his life as a crack junkie, however reports so far point to this one not being a fake. Carr’s book, The Night of the Gun, is a searing study of his struggles with drug addiction and the impact it had [...]

Ages before Harry Potter and the wizards of Hogwarts became the darlings of literature, another Potter – Beatrix was writing endearing children’s stories that remain immensely popular. Born on this day in 1866, Beatrix Potter was a woman ahead of her time. At a time of limited women’s rights, she wrote and published 23 children’s [...]

Earlier this week the Montana New Zealand Book Awards were announced. Some of the winners included: Montana Medal For Fiction or Poetry Opportunity by Charlotte Grimshaw Montana Medal for Non-fiction Wetlands of New Zealand by Janet Hunt Catagory Prizes: Poetry Cold Snack by Janet Charman Biography The Life and Times of James Walter Chapman-Taylor by [...]

Entertainment Weekly conducted a short interview with Stephenie Meyer after her appearance at the San Diego Comic Con, where she sat on a panel in front of 6000 screaming fans. In this clip she talks about what it was like writing the latest book. Meyer’s fourth and final book in the Twilight series will be [...]

Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University and he described his most proud professional moment as creating a free computer programming tool for children called Alice However he will be remembered by most for the uplifting talk that he gave for his children, one that he let the rest of the [...]

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Keeping with our Asian theme of the morning, just in time for the Olympics the Guardian suggests the top 10 books on Beijing…. 1. Beijing Coma by Ma Jian Published this year, Ma Jian describes the events that led up to the 1989 massacre in Beijing. He has found the perfect metaphor. Dai Wei, a [...]

BC, the province where AbeBooks HQ is located is turning 150 this year so to celebrate we did a quick little search for the most expensive books about British Columbia that AbeBooks has ever sold. It turns out that the most expensive book about BC that we have ever sold is also the most expensive [...]