The Library celebrates 1st annual National Book Week

The Library has been celebrating the 1st annual National Book Week (6-13 September 2010), by focusing on the fiction available in the library's collection and offering new books for sale on Level 3.

Peter Carey up for Booker Prize

London - Australian writer Peter Carey has moved closer to a literary hat trick on Tuesday by being named a finalist for fiction's prestigious Booker Prize, an award he has already won twice.

Carey's Parrot and Olivier in America - a US odyssey inspired by philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville - is one of six contenders for the £50 000 prize, which guarantees a glut of media attention and a big boost in sales.

Carey took home Bookers in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda and in 2001 for True History of Kelly Gang. He would be the first writer to win the prize three times, but it is considered a long shot.

South Africa's Damon Galgut is also on the list. See the article on www.news24.com for favourites and other finalists

Literary bad boy in plagiarism row

Paris - Sexist, obscene, racist were the accusations thrown at Michel Houellebecq over his previous novels.

Now it's plagiarism, after France's best-known living writer allegedly cut and pasted chunks of Wikipedia into his new book.

(From www.news24.com)