Are Stieg Larsson and Dan Brown a match for literary fiction?
The Millennium trilogy and Da Vinci Code authors sell millions – but according to novelist Edward Docx their books are 'amateurish'. Here, he argues that even good genre fiction doesn't bear comparison...
View ArticleTop-selling 100 books of all time: download the data
The Top-selling 100 books of all time (well, since Nielsen records begain in 1998) are published today. Download the data for yourself and see how they compare• Get the data, with full details...
View ArticleTrent Reznor to score The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Nine Inch Nails frontman to showcase 'limited skills at stringed instruments' for David Fincher's film of Stieg Larsson novelTrent Reznor will once again work with Social Network director David...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's partner plans to complete final Millennium novel
Eva Gabrielsson, late author's partner, says the pair 'often wrote together' and she will finish the hugely successful crime seriesStieg Larsson's partner Eva Gabrielsson plans to finish the fourth...
View ArticleHarvey Weinstein regrets not buying rights to Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Producer says his failure to buy US film rights to Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy was a 'big bloody mistake'The King's Speech producer Harvey Weinstein has told Newsweek his "favourite mistake" in...
View ArticleThe sound of silence in Larsson land
Boom in Swedish crime fiction has put the country firmly on the tourist trail, and a trip to its most northerly shores gives a rare glimpse of a lost world of solitude and reflection"I don't understand...
View ArticleTop 10 female detectives | Jess McCabe
With Zen axed because of the slew of male detectives cluttering up BBC1, it's time for the ladies to step forward – in the footsteps of these classic female crime-fightersFans of Inspector Zen, the...
View ArticleDavid Fincher goes Swede on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
A trailer suggests the director's use of the Stockholm setting could yield a more daring adaptation of Stieg Larsson's novelThe dismay that usually greets reports of a Hollywood remake of a European...
View ArticleStieg Larsson has ruined my dragon tattoo
But at least I'm now at an age when it should be covered up, anywayWhen I had a dragon indelibly inked on to my abdomen 15 years ago, I thought I had futureproofed myself against tattoo regret by...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's final novel '70% complete', colleague claims
Kurdo Baksi says he was shown manuscript for sequel to Millennium Trilogy, which would 'make the perfect Hollywood film'The fourth novel by Stieg Larsson, author of the 30m-selling Millennium Trilogy,...
View ArticleThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo looks promising – but why so many Brits?
David Fincher's remake of Stieg Larsson's bestseller is shot in Sweden but, oddly, appears to have a distinctly British flavourThe teaser trailer for the Hollywood remake of The Girl with the Dragon...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's ghost | No 18 | Books power 100
Among the legacies of the author's chart-busting Millennium trilogy is a continuing boom in Nordic crime fictionAuthor (deceased)Like Mikael Blomkvist, the hero of his Millennium trilogy, Larsson was a...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's partner: 'It's odd to have to prove our life together existed'
Eva Gabrielsson and bestselling writer Stieg Larsson had always wanted to marry. But his sudden death didn't just deprive her of her wedding day, it also plunged her into a nightmare of legal...
View ArticleStieg Larsson, the author who could not get on a journalism course
Letter of rejection for campaigning reporter who went on to write Millennium trilogy likely to fetch £8,000 to £12,000 at auctionA letter of rejection from the Joint Committee of Colleges of Journalism...
View ArticleH&M launch The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo clothing range
The Swedish high street store will launch designs by Trish Summerville, costume designer on David Fincher's version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. But what would Lisbeth Salander say?Lisbeth...
View ArticleGirl with the Dragon Tattoo producer blasts film critic over early review
Scott Rudin bans New Yorker reviewer David Denby from future press screenings for breaking film's embargoOscar-winning producer Scott Rudin has banned David Denby, a critic from the New Yorker...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy to become very graphic novel
DC Comics signs Glaswegian crime writer Denise Mina to adapt Girl with the Dragon Tattoo novels for comic formatSuper-tough bisexual computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, star of Stieg Larsson's...
View ArticleThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – review
David Fincher directs Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara in an icebox-fresh take on this familiar thrillerDavid Fincher turns the film noir white with this steely, stealthy adaptation of The Girl With the...
View ArticleThe Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Steven Zaillian on the difficulties of...
Stieg Larsson's crime trilogy is being adapted for Hollywood, starting with director David Fincher's Boxing Day blockbuster. 'There was no pressure to lighten it up,' reveals its screenwriterLast...
View ArticleTrailer trash
Noomi Rapace reveals that she's glad to be shut of Lisbeth Salander, while The Artist's canine co-star discovers he won't be getting a sausage at the BaftasRemoving the dragon tattooFar from casting...
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