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Eat, Pray, Love author's memoir out in 2010

American Elizabeth Gilbert's new memoir will be out in January 2010, her publisher, Viking Press, has announced.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage is being billed as a sequel to 2006's Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.

Eat, Pray, Love has sold more than seven million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 30 languages. A film version starring Julia Roberts is due out next summer.

In May 2008 Gilbert made news when she destroyed a first draft of a memoir called Committed. She had decided it was unreadable. Viking had already promoted the memoir heavily but was forced to wait for this new version.

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In October, HarperCollins is releasing a coffee table book called 100 Photos That Changed Canada.

The book is edited by Winnipeg's Mark Reid, editor of The Beaver national history magazine. The foreword is by Ottawa author and historian Charlotte Gray, and Beaver publisher Deborah Morrison contributes the preface.

The photographs cover a variety of subjects. A national tour with Reid and Gray, along with former CBC Politics host Don Newman is planned to support the release.

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The Manitoba John Howard Society is raffling off signed titles by local authors tonight Sunday at its annual general meeting.

The money raised will be used to support the organization's programs serving men in remand and prison. Only 300 tickets will be sold at $2 each.

Among the many authors donating are Struan Sinclair, Ariel Gordon and Joan Thomas.

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Deceased U.K. author William Golding admitted to having tried to commit rape as a young man.

The revelation will appear in a new biography of the Nobel laureate by U.K. critic John Carey. William Golding: The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies is due out in the fall.

Golding made the admission in a private journal. He describes an attempted rape of a 15-year old that occurred when he was 18.

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Da Vinci Code writer Dan Brown is the most donated author in European Oxfam charity stores.

Oxfam runs more than 700 stores in Europe that sell donated goods to raise money for charities around the world.

Each month the stores sell almost $3 million worth of titles. Oxfam is the biggest second-hand bookseller in Europe.

Brown's long-awaited new novel, The Lost Symbol, is due in stores Sept. 15.

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Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 23, 2009 B8

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