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Author behind Gun Alley murder pardonResearch by author Kevin Morgan and used for his book Gun Alley: Murder, Lies and Failure of Justice (S&S) has led to the pardoning of a man who was wrongly co...
India tells Bangladeshi writer to 'stay hidden or leave'
Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin, who has been living in exile in India after being attacked for alleged 'anti-Islamic' passages in her works, has been told by Indian authorities she can only stay in...
Chinese dissident jailed for illegally publishing book
Guo Feixong, a high-profile Chinese dissident, has been sentenced to five years jail after he was found to have illegally published a book which exposed widespread corruption in the north-ea...
Ruddock refuses to budge on sedition, but may allow researchers access to banned books
Federal Attorney-general Philip Ruddock has rejected the key recommendation of the Australian Law Reform Commission's report into the Government's 2005 Anti-terrorism Act--that the term ‘seditio...
ASA joins ‘book banning’ protests
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has joined the chorus of voices protesting plans by the Attorney-general, Philip Ruddock, to tighten the classification regime for books.In a letter sent to the...
Tibet objections force atlas to print in Hong Kong
Earth, the new out-sized atlas from Millennium House, has been printed in Hong Kong to avoid a possible embargo by China, Millennium House managing director Gordon Cheers told WBN. Cheers said he coul...
'Offensive' word to be removed from Jacqueline Wilson book
Random UK has agreed to replace 'twat' with 'twit' in future editions of Jacqueline Wilson's My Sister Jodie following complaints by three people. The book has sold 150,000 copies to date in the UK....
Book on Mohammed's wife dropped by Random US
Random House US has pulled The Jewel Of Medina, a novel about the Prophet Mohammed's child bride, fearing it could "incite acts of violence". Random House deputy publisher Thomas P...
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Call to ban Nitschke bookThe sisters of an Australian woman who committed suicide using the drug Nembutal, have called on Attorney-General Robert McClelland to ban Philip Nitschke's book Killing Me So...
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Tim Winton on SlowTV--45-minute interview onlineThe often media-shy Tim Winton has participated in a 45-minute interview with Martin Flanagan for the new website ‘SlowTV', broadcast by Schwarz M...
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