Topic: Books and Literature
Tony Blair's memoirs of 10 years as British prime minister will be published in September entitled "The Journey", the publishers said Thursday. The 58-year-old's account of his time in office -- the longest of any Labour prime minister and one of the most controversial in modern British politics -- has been keenly awaited and is likely to become an instant ...
Will he expose the deal critics suspect carried Britain and the United States to war in Iraq? Take aim at those who dubbed him President George W. Bush's poodle? Describe his furious arguments with successor Gordon Brown? Probably not. But Tony Blair promised Thursday to ...
Republican star Sarah Palin will write a new book reflecting her patriotic and "spiritual" values, publishers HarperCollins announced Thursday. The conservative former governor of Alaska and vice presidential candidate will pen "a celebration of American virtues and strengths," HarperCollins said in a statement. Palin, believed to be eyeing a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, is already a ...
The Israeli novelist Amos Oz said on Thursday he hoped Arab audiences would read his memoir because of its portrayal of Israeli life in the years leading up to the birth of the Jewish state. The autobiographical work "A Tale of Love and Darkess" has been translated into Arabic for the first time by a German publishing house and was ...
