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Plagiarised spy novel withdrawn
Hodder & Stoughton UK is withdrawing the novel Assassin of Secrets by Q R Markham from sale, alongside its US publisher Little, Brown, after the announcement that the book contains 'numerous pla...
Wikipedia plagiarism accusations dog Chris Anderson's 'Free'
The much-anticipated launch of Free by Chris 'Long-tail' Anderson has been soured by the discovery of 'almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources", with m...
Plagiarism row over Austen book
An Oxford academic is claiming that a former student has plagiarised her ideas in a new book on the popularity of Jane Austen published by Canongate.
Walsch admites to plagiarising essay
Neale Donald Walsch, author of the 'Conversations With God' series, has admitted that he plagiarised another author's story for an essay he recently published on a 'spiritual' website.
Trollope backs Rowling in 'lexicon' case
'It is a triumph and reassurance for all authors that J K Rowling has won her plagiarism case in New York,' writes Joanna Trollope in The Times.
The most litigated short story ever?
A short story by pulp writer Cornell Woolrich that was the basis for Hitchcock's film Rear Window and which was subsequently the subject of a long-running court battle that ran until 1990, is again in...
La Plante accused of plagiarism: blames 'research assistant'
Bestselling thriller writer Linda La PLante has been accused of plagiarising passages from a Holocaust memoir -- Five Chimneys by Olga Lengyel -- in a 1993 novel called Entwined. La Plante has said sh...
Psychiatry book withdrawn
Transworld has withdrawn Raj Persaud's From the Edge of the Couch from sale in the UK following charges of plagiarism against the author.
Romance writer dumped for cheating
Romance writer Cassie Edwards and her publisher Signet Books have decided to part ways after allegations that she plagiarised passages in several of her books from other sources.
Romance writer in plagiarism row
Romance writer Cassie Edwards, the author of over 100 novels with Native American themes, has been accused of plagiarising more than 30 nonfiction works on Native Americans.
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