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Jodie Evans was given the award by the National Literacy Trust along with Harry Potter author JK Rowling and actor Henry Winkler, best known for playing The Fonz in sitcom Happy Days.

Who knew that Rainbow Dash was such a bookworm? Give bronies a break! In defense of adult My Little Pony fans On the Hub Network's all-new My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , the loyal pegasus is in a dither because her favorite author A.K. Yearling will be releasing her new book soon.

It's impossible to name the top books of 2013, not least because I haven't read all the possible contenders.

Piper Kerman did 15 months in Danbury 's Federal Correctional Institution for her brief involvement in the drug trade.

Harry Potter is to be given a full-colour makeover in a complete set of new editions of the JK Rowling books, Bloomsbury has announced.

"Religion is dead," the director tells THR of "The Zero Theorem" with Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon and Tilda Swinton, as he pulls out his iPhone 5S.

It is rare for a book to receive the kind of attention Jonathan Safran Foer's "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" garnered a couple of weeks ago, Ankeny school district officials said.

Young love:Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan share 'quite a good kiss' as Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr 'I'm crap,' sighs Daniel Radcliffe.

Steve McQueen's film about a free black man captured and enslaved, is the best kind of history lesson: Brutal truth that demands to be seen.

In his latest book, acclaimed author Malcolm Gladwell shines a contrarian light on conventional thinking about advantages and disadvantages.

Life of Pi writer David Magee has been tapped to adapt The Chronicles of Narnia: The Silver Chair , which is being produced by the C.S. Lewis Company and the Mark Gordon Company.

What makes some people more successful in work and life than others? IQ and work ethic are important, but they don't tell the whole story.

Max Brooks already terrified readers by giving new life to zombies with his book World War Z , and now he's focused on a helluva comic book project of biblical proportions.

On a break from pretending to believe they live in a country bristling with violent white racists, the Non-Fox Media have been trying to debunk stories about the "Knockout Game," in which young black males approach random strangers and try to knock them out with one punch.

Her first novel The Bone Season was released in August in 20 languages and has now been translated into eight more.

Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins has a thing for the word "drunk", Stephenie Twilight Meyer likes "unwilling" and J.K. Rowling more often than not reaches for the word "nasty".

Our critics look back at the books of 2013 that took us to turning points in history and told us stories both sweet and sinister of year again: time to look back at 12 months' worth of favourite new books, the ones we counted on for brilliant company in all the waiting rooms, lineups, and commutes of 2013.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling and Happy Days star Henry Winkler are among those who have been named as the nation's "Literacy Heroes".

LOS ANGELES _ With his novel "World War Z," author Max Brooks won over a legion of readers, weaving an epic tale told from the perspective of the survivors of a global pandemic that saw the dead return to life.

Lust for learning - and love. Brilliant Alma Whittaker, 19th-century Philadelphia heiress and scientist, finds that her study of botany isn't enough to fulfill her deepest longings in The Signature of All Things , memoirist Elizabeth Gilbert's return to fiction.