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HM Naqvi’s next novel is based in Karachi, writes Karthik Balasubramanian.

He spent his formative years walking on the beach and reading books and at the age of 26, Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi shocked the literary world by winning one of the UK’s most prestigious prizes for debut novels for The Last Song of Dusk.

Hanif Kureishi spoke to Soumya Bhattacharya about a changing world around him, his desire to be part of it, fatherhood and drugs.

Her romances have sold about 600 million copies, but the celebrity author could have written humour too.

Jennifer Aniston and her father have received the iParenting Media Award in the 2009 Outstanding category, for brilliantly narrating the book Loukoumi's Good Deeds.

Peter Andre has reportedly landed a 1.5 million-pound cookery book deal putting him on par with his estranged wife Katie Price, who has amassed great money publishing her own tome.

Legendary actor Tony Curtis claims in a new book The Making of Some Like it Hot that he had an affair with hot babe Marilyn Monroe and that she even became pregnant with his child.

The tome, Bubbles: My Secret Diary, From Swaziland to Neverland, will be released by publisher John Blake, who says the spoof memoir was a "collection of very personal and honest entries from Bubbles' diary"...

Looks like Stephenie Meyer is not the only one to write about sexy vampires as she is now being accused of taking off the storyline for her fourth ultra-successful book by a less famous, less rich author.

In his book Controlling Chaos, American socialite Paris Hilton's ex-manager will demonstrate how, for a decade, he managed to save his mercurial client from disgrace by manipulating the media, and Paris herself.

It is perhaps natural that the Dalai Lama who is revered as a spiritual guru, should inspire writers from the Orient and the West. Despite there being over 100 biographies and other books on the monk, writers continue to queue

Munshi Premchand (July 31, 1880 – October 8, 1936) was a writer of modern Hindi and Urdu literature. He is known as the foremost writer in Hindi and Urdu during the early 20th century.

Written by scholar and educationist Som P Ranchan, Dalai Lama - A Study will help research scholars understand Buddhism and the Tibetan spiritual leader better.

Novelist Amitav Ghosh shared the Vodafone-Crossword Book Awards 2008 for his book Sea of Poppies with writer-reviewer Neel Mukherjee for his novel Past Continuous in the English fiction category.