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Da Vinci publisher in court case, Two authors are launching a High Court action against the publishers of The Da Vinci Code, which they say infringes upon their ideas. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh are suing Random House, claiming the bestseller lifts from their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail.  A High Court hearing will be held next week, followed by a trial next year. Random House was unavailable for comment on the claim that Brown stole the idea that Jesus had a child...

Gary Morgenstein scores again with "Loving Rabbi Kleiman". A delightful tragicomedia novel exploring the middle age crisis of a man who suffered a ruptured marriage and relentlessly searches for love and happiness in the nest of a woman rabbi. The novel could irritate some but, unquestionably will delight many of us...

 

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Google is sued by book publishers. Internet search engine Google is being sued by a group of book publishers over plans to put millions of titles online. The Association of American Publishers, which includes firms such as Penguin, has filed a suit in New York claiming Google will infringe their copyrights...

Buffett's secrets to be revealed. Publisher Bantam Dell has won a bidding war for a biography of 75-year-old billionaire investor Warren Buffett. It is the first time a biography will have be written with his co-operation, and deal is worth $7m (£4m), AP says. Mr Buffett, known as the Sage of Omaha, is the world's second richest man, said by Forbes to be worth $40bn (£22.6bn). The book, which will focus on his investment strategy, is likely to be called The Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends, Wisdom and Wealth. ..

Beat goes on for Ginsberg's Howl. In the years after he wrote Howl, Allen Ginsberg alternately described the poem as a song of spiritual liberation, a homage to art, an ode to gay love and a lament for his mentally ill mother. The Beat poet who defined his times with the salvo, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," gave perhaps the most adroit explanation, however, upon publication of the original facsimile edition of the tour de force that had launched his career more than three decades earlier...

Iconic Shakespeare portrait likely not him. An Elizabethan portrait thought by many to depict the young William Shakespeare is not the bard, experts at the National Portrait Gallery have concluded. The Grafton portrait, which shows a dark-haired, high-browed young man in a rich scarlet jacket, has appeared on the cover of books about the writer. Gallery experts dated the painting to 1588, when Shakespeare was 24 -- the age given by an inscription on the picture for its subject. But they said Friday that there was no other evidence to suggest the portrait, owned by the University of Manchester, was of the playwright...

Believable Bootstrappers: 21 Real-World Stories to Rev up Your Inner Entrepreneur. A new book from former Apprentice standout Wes Moss offers a host of been-there-done-that lessons from people who left the corporate world to forge their own path.

Potter sales surpass 300 million: agent. .. 

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