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Digital Digest: 26/07/2010

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Music TheHighDefinite.com Mash-ups used to feature just two bands; this latest effort from Brighton-based mash-up artist The Kleptones features no less than six bands music spliced together: The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, Boston, Cypress Hill, Rare Earth and Daft Punk.

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Digital Digest: 26/07/2010

Amazon: Kindle e-book sales have overtaken hardback book sales

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Amazon.com Inc.

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Amazon: Kindle e-book sales have overtaken hardback book sales

You wait ages to find one hoard of gold coins…

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

For 22 years, Dave Crisp had tramped out every week with his metal detector slung across his shoulder in the hope of finding a hoard of buried treasure that he promised his wife he would one day bring back home to her. After waiting for over two decades for the discovery that had so far eluded him, he stumbled across not just one rare Roman treasure trove of coins but two in the space of a ...

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Power games: can Nadal seize his rival’s crown?

Monday, July 5th, 2010

The guests at the Wimbledon Champions' Dinner in London on Sunday night had already finished their rare sirloin of beef and were well into the golden supreme of south coast halibut by the time the star of the show appeared.

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Power games: can Nadal seize his rival's crown?

One Minute With: Jennie Rooney

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Where are you now and what can you see? In my flat in Dulwich. I have a nice view of trees quite a rare sight for London.

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Anthony Burgess: More than ultraviolence

Monday, June 14th, 2010

We've reserved three graves for you, Mr Burgess," went an anonymous letter delivered to the Midland Hotel, where Anthony Burgess was staying on a rare visit home to Manchester. "One for your body, one for your books and one for your ego."

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Books to light up lazy days: Boyd Tonkin picks the best in glittering global literature

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

From media loudmouths to supermarket special offers, the brashest messengers around us have yelled a simple story about the events that begin in South Africa today. On the one hand, we are told, half the nation will now sink into a beer-befuddled month-long obsessive trance in which the minutiae of Slovakia's encounter with Paraguay in Bloemfontein will count for more than any matter of the ...

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Books to light up lazy days: Boyd Tonkin picks the best in glittering global literature

Cambridge University Library to publish rare faith and science books on internet

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Thousands of rare books and manuscripts at Camrbidge University Library - including handwritten notes by Sir Isaac Newton - are to be made available on line thanks to a £1.5m donation.

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Rare Tintin memorabilia for sale

Friday, May 28th, 2010

PARIS - A French auction house is selling rare memorabilia of Tintin, the comic strip reporter and globe trotter whose stories have been translated into 80 languages and sold over 200 million books in the past eight decades.

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Rare copy of Sherlock’s debut may fetch 400,000 pounds at auction

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

London, May 25 : A rare inscribed copy of the book in which famed detective Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance is expected to fetch up to 400,000 pounds when it goes under the hammer.

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