You know his music, now read about his rise to fame - Paul Oakenfold: The Authorised Biography is out on Monday. Celebrate his work and have your say on the top 10 best ever dance anthems at www.pollthepeople.com. Share your top 5 favourite albums, books and films and vote now!

Anita Notaro has won the Galaxy Irish Popular Fiction Book of the Year for Take a Look at Me Now, a paperback no.1 bestseller, at the Irish Book Awards.

Brand new Bill Bryson forum now live!
Discuss the wonder of perennial favourite Bill Bryson, and find out more about his new environmental campaign at the official UK website.

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Lee Child gets a double whammy! Nothing To Lose and Bad Luck And Trouble are this week's UK No.1 bestsellers in hardback and paperback fiction respectively. Check out his site for more...

New castings in the Sophie Kinsella movie, Confessions of a Shopaholic! Visit the Kinsella site message board to find out more.

Don't miss the second series of Johnny Kingdom, currently showing Tuesdays and Wednesdays on BBC2.

Galaxy British Book Awards 2008 Vote for your favorite titles. Click here.

Daily Mail First Novel Award: Let us help you to get your first novel published - check out the terms and conditions for our £30,000 publishing prize.

Bob Denard, the model for the hero of Frederick Forsyth's book about African mercenaries, The Dogs of War has died.

Roland Vernon has been named as the winner of the Daily Mail First Novel Competition 2007 and has won a publishing deal worth £30,000 with Transworld. His novel A Dark Enchantment will be published under the Black Swan imprint in April 2008.

Love to find out more about bestselling author Tess Gerritsen? Listen to her podcast at feeds.feedburner.com/TessGerritsenVideoPodcast. Compressed four clips can be downloaded at: www.yada-yada.co.uk/podcasts/

Meera Syal knocks Pinter and Byron off the school curriculum news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6331869.stm

James Martin has been made a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science for his work on The Meaning Of The 21st Century.

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The Lollipop Shoes Joanne Harris
For all those who loved Chocolat - Vianne is back.

The Opposite of Love Julie Buxbaum
THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE is a brilliant debut: absorbing and clever, bold and sassy, deeply touching with more than a few laugh-out-loud moments.

Written in Bone Simon Beckett
Now in paperback, the new crime thriller from the No.1 bestselling author of the The Chemistry of Death

Reaper's Gale Steven Erikson
The seventh awesome chapter in the most ambitious and acclaimed fantasy series of recent years.

Nothing to Lose Lee Child
The new hardback Jack Reacher thriller by the no.1 bestseller.

Ritual Mo Hayder
DI Jack Caffery is back on the beat in Mo Hayder's terrifying new bestseller.

Gerrard Steven Gerrard
The autobiography of a footballing hero.

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