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Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk 250 years ago, on 29 September 1758. When he was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, he had already been a celebrity throughout Europe since defeating Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. In Britain he was a national hero and was set to become almost a saint, with Victorians talking seriously about his ‘apotheosis’.
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Posted 29/09/2008 09:37:42 by Roy and Lesley Adkins with 0 comments.
Judy Cook talks about the pain of leaving her husband Peter in this article in the Independent, headed I Felt As Though I Could Never Leave Him
Posted 26/09/2008 14:54:52 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Seven chapters, seven podcasts, 13 character profiles, a Facebook page, a widget and a video tour of Pimlico into the Telegraph's online novel and I feel it's time to take stock.
Posted 24/09/2008 15:09:00 by Ceri Radford, Deputy Communities Editor, Telegraph.co.uk with 0 comments.
The film version of Toby Young's excruciatingly funny memoir How To Lose Friends & Alienate People premieres in the UK this week, before going on general release at cinemas nationwide on October 3rd.
Posted 24/09/2008 11:09:28 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 1 comments.
As her new novel Home hits the shops, Marilynne Robinson is interviewed in The Times in a piece headed 'world's best writer of prose.
Posted 22/09/2008 16:00:32 by Donna Coonan, Commissioning Editor, Virago Modern Classics with 0 comments.
Watch Patrick Holford talk about his new book How to Quit Without Feeling S**t -- subtitled 'The Fast, Effective Way to Stop Cravings Without Drugs' -- on meettheauthor.com.
Posted 19/09/2008 12:14:24 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Listen to a recording of Robin Cooper, author of The Timewaster Diaries, asking an upmarket hotel if he can celebrate his Uncle's birthday there with some rather special cakes...
Posted 18/09/2008 12:19:06 by Robin Cooper with 0 comments.
We have five titles in the Hardback Fiction Top 50 this week, including The Gypsy Morph by Terry Brooks at No. 17 (No. 4 in the Science Fiction Hardback chart) and Mark Billingham's In the Dark, in the Top 20 for the sixth week, at No. 20.
Posted 17/09/2008 10:56:31 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Seth Godin is the author of Meatball Sundae, The Dip and the forthcoming book on 'how not to be a sheep', Tribes. He was described as 'the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age' by Business Week magazine.
Posted 16/09/2008 10:51:34 by Seth Godin with 0 comments.
On the launch of his new serial novel Corduroy Mansions on the Daily Telegraph website, Alexander McCall Smith discusses the joys of writing in instalments in this article.
Posted 15/09/2008 11:15:33 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Mark Oliver Everett, the Eels mainman also known as E, has made a very entertaining and intriguingly-titled advertisement for his utterly engrossing book Things The Grandchildren Should Know. Watch it here. And read an extract from the book here.
Posted 12/09/2008 16:55:22 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Listen to a recording of Robin Cooper, author of The Timewaster Diaries, asking questions of an 'Ask Any Question' service, including what to do having swallowed a pen...
Posted 12/09/2008 12:26:58 by Robin Cooper with 0 comments.
The current loves and loathes of the Between the Sheets team
Posted 11/09/2008 15:57:35 by The Between the Sheets team with 2 comments.
Posted 10/09/2008 09:46:07 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Pollly Williams, author of A Good Girl Comes Undone, discusses the joys of holidaying in the UK in this piece for the Daily Mail.
Posted 09/09/2008 15:45:32 by Polly Williams with 0 comments.
With our own Linda Grant the only female author to make the cut, read more on the announcement of the shortlist for the Man Booker Prize 2008:
Posted 09/09/2008 14:26:19 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
Jane Beaton’s Class has got us thinking this month about those hazy school days . . . and for many of us there’s a very good reason why they’re firmly out of focus. Ever had a flashback in the dead of night, alarming in its clarity – something you thought was safely put to bed in the depths of your subconscious but was lurking there all along, biding its time, sitting it out, waiting for that Magic FM power ballad to kick in (cue 10cc ‘I’m Not in Love’)? Yes, it’s the night of the school dance – that dreaded evening of sweaty armpits, chapped lips and too much Lynx Africa. Welcome to the school disco – enter at your peril . . .
Posted 08/09/2008 15:55:33 by The Between the Sheets team with 0 comments.
Strange new people, strange new smells, an embarrassing mum-inflicted haircut and the ignominy of having your lunch money stolen by the person you sit next to . . . but enough about my working life, do you remember what it was like going back to school?!
Posted 05/09/2008 12:45:07 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 4 comments.
The Guardian has a fantastic gallery of some of the finest entries over the last thirty years of the Diagram Award, the prize for the oddest book title.
Posted 05/09/2008 11:35:14 by Simon Sheffield, Digital Content Manager with 0 comments.
I was delighted in July to receive a parcel of eight Virago Classic Reprints offered by Good Housekeeping magazine. I had named Edith Wharton as my current favourite woman writer, having discovered her books as a result of one of the choices of the NWR Book Group I belong to.
Posted 05/09/2008 10:55:37 by Anne Anderton with 0 comments.
Mostly I’m very grateful to my parents for the upbringing I had. They instilled discipline, a work-ethic and were very keen that I studied hard, worked hard, went to university. Like your parents, I expect, they took me to the library, to museums and castles; encouraged my ambitions, gave me piano lessons, and told me never to care what other people think.
Posted 04/09/2008 10:32:44 by Jane Beaton with 0 comments.
Damien Lewis's Apache Dawn goes into the Hardback Non-Fiction Top 10 at No. 4 (but should be No. 2 in the Sunday Times bestsellers!)
Posted 03/09/2008 14:18:50 by Helen Graham, Data Analyst with 0 comments.
Seb and I spend three days with Dave in his edit suite in Reigate trying to salvage something of the film. Dave does his best but all we end up with are nine scenes of people rolling around in a poorly lit room.
Posted 02/09/2008 10:44:53 by Anonymous, author of Touch Wood with 0 comments.
At the height of the Depression, several thousand American emigrants left New York on the decks of passenger liners waving goodbye to the Statue of Liberty, bound for Leningrad. Over 100,000 Americans had applied for jobs working in brand new factories in Soviet Russia, ironically built for Stalin by famous American industrialists such as Henry Ford.
Posted 02/09/2008 10:02:14 by Tim Tzouliadis with 0 comments.
Listen to a recording of Robin Cooper, author of The Timewaster Diaries, attempting to get a table at a swanky London restaurant based on his ridiculously lame celebrity connections.
Posted 01/09/2008 10:44:48 by Robin Cooper with 0 comments.