During an interview with AFP at the "Crossing Border" music, arts and literature festival in The Hague, Ukraine's "greatest living author", Andrey Kurkov, says that his mind has constantly been on the war in his home country (Footage by...

English/Nat A Scottish bookseller has split the literary world with claims that he has unearthed two previously undiscovered works by renowned 19th Century British author Charlotte Bronte. Edinburgh bookseller Ian King has sold the...

AP Entertainment Los Angeles, 27 September 2006 1. Pan of the book's cover, "The Grays" 2. Wide of author Whitley Strieber walking 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Whitley Strieber/Author, on what the book is about: "The other element of 'The...

Paris, France - 7 February 2007 1. Wide of Notre Dame 2. Mid of couple walking 3. Close of French flag 4. Mid of couple eating on a bench 5. Wide of Paris 7. SOUNDBITE (French) Josette Sicsic, Sociologist: "Above all it's movies,...

Anne Rice / New York / 8th August / ENT 2 Anne Rice gets on the bus for an American tour Gothic writer Anna Rice is promoting her latest novel Servant of the Bones with an exhausting tour which will take nearly two months and see her...

Anne Rice / New York / 11th November / ENT 3 Anne Rice Gets into the Music Business Goth writer, Anne Rice inspires the kind of devotion among her readers that is usually reserved for rock stars. So it is only appropriate that, for the...

Australian writer Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize on Tuesday with a visceral book about wartime brutality and its aftermath - a novel the head of the judging team said was as powerful as a kick in the stomach. Flanagan drew on his...

1. Various of cabbage relics from Taiwan museum on display in Beijing 2. Various of cabbage and pork chop relics from Taiwan museum 3. Close of visitor taking picture with camera phone pan down to miniature vases 4. Various of...

1. Wide exterior of courthouse 2. Various court sketches of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling during hearing 3. Police officers outside courthouse 4. Harry Potter fans waiting outside courthouse with books in their hands 5. Wide of...

Natural Sound Elton John tops a list of some 1-thousand recipients who will come just a bit closer to royalty. Buckingham Palace has announced the long-awaited Honours list which spans recipients from the former governor of Hong Kong,...

AP Television Los Angeles, 21 June 2010 1. Wide pan of fans with tents set up outside Nokia Live 2. Mid shot fan outside tent next to sign that reads "Rob you robbed my heart. I'm Robsessed so bite me" 3. Wide shot woman moving tent 4....

Friends and family gathered in Mexico City on Wednesday to bid farewell to the famed author Carlos Fuentes as a funeral procession transported his body to Mexico's Fine Arts Palace where he was to be honoured. Fuentes, who played a...

AP Television London, 28 July 2010 1. Exterior of HMV, London 2. Wide of fans waiting outside 3. Zoom in on Katie Price look-a-like 4. Wide of Katie Price walking onto stage for photocall 5. Various Katie Price posing for photos 6....

Jerusalem 1. Various exterior shots of Israeli prime minister's office 2. Israel prime minister Ehud Olmert arriving for meeting 3. Mid shot of ministers seated for meeting 4. Mid shot of Olmert 5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ehud Olmert,...

Darmstadt, Germany, 25th October 2008 1. Visitors entering Schloss Frankenstein 2. Tilt down exterior of castle 3. Close-up pumpkin lamp on wall 4. Medium hooded swordman preparing for sword fight show 5. Various sword fight stage...

Jolo, Philippines - 27 May 2000 1. Hostage negotiator Roberto Aventajado (in white shirt and baseball cap) talking to hostage 2. Aventajado talking 3. Aventajado talking to Lebanese hostage Marie Moarbes, with Abu Sayyaf leader Commander...

A 28-year-old author from New Zealand won Britain's prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction on Tuesday (15OCT2013) for her novel 'The Luminaries'. Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, presented Eleanor Catton with the award at London's Guild...

AP Television Las Vegas, 4 Oct. 2010 1. Wide of Palm Mortuary & Cemetary, pull out to sign 2. Wide of mourners filing in for service 3. Medium of line waiting to sign guest book, pan left to right 4. Push in through door to image of...

1. Wide of Shanghai International Studies University campus 2. Close of banner welcoming Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, with his name written in both English and Chinese 3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize...

HEADLINE: Ex-CIA officer: Torture investigation a must CAPTION: Former CIA case officer turned author Robert Baer says a probe into the interrogation of terror suspects is necessary to clear the air. He says in the future, interrogating...

1. Pan Stephen King titles 2. King on set of 'Storm of the Century' TV series 3. CU King books 4. File of King typewriter 5. SOT Stephen King - Upsound: "People will say 'Where do you get your ideas?' I don't know where I get them. And...

1. Mid of author Carlos Fuentes (second from right) sitting next to Mexican President Felipe Calderon (right) during a tribute to the writer's career 2. Fuentes greeting people 3. Wide of tribute ceremony 4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos...

HEADLINE: Former HP CEO: Running for Boxer's Senate seat CAPTION: Former Silicon Valley executive Carly Fiorina said Wednesday she's running for the chance to seize Barbara Boxer's Senate seat, depicting the Democrat as a do-nothing...