The Malaysian Insider :: Books
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| Bridget Jones set to return in third novel next year Posted: 10 Nov 2012 04:59 AM PST  Still from 'Bridget Jones' Diary' with Renee Zellweger. — Afp pic Fielding's first two books about Jones, written in the form of diaries chronicling the heroine's failed efforts to find love, lose weight and quit smoking, have sold more than 15 million copies. They were adapted into two hit movies in 2001 and 2004, starring US actress Renee Zellweger as Bridget opposite Hugh Grant and Colin Firth as her rival lovers. "The new novel is set in present-day London, with an entirely new scenario for Bridget," said Fielding. "If people laugh as much reading it as I am while writing it, then we'll all be very happy." Fielding, 54, first created the hapless Bridget for a weekly column in Britain's Independent newspaper in 1995. Her novel "Bridget Jones's Diary" was published the following year, followed by the sequel "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason" in 1999. The character returned to Fielding's newspaper column in 2005 and 2006 with Jones falling pregnant by the dashing but unreliable Daniel Cleaver, played by Grant in the film adaptations. Fielding said yesterday that her famous diary format, which opened each entry with a calorie count and number of alcohol units consumed, would be updated for the 2010s in the new novel. "It's more like 'number of Twitter followers: 0'," she told BBC radio. She revealed that Bridget will experiment with Internet dating, but remained tight-lipped about whether the third installment will feature Cleaver and Mark Darcy, his rival for Bridget's affections, played by Firth in the films. "Some characters remain and some may have disappeared," Fielding said. Dan Franklin, from publisher Jonathan Cape, said: "Great comic writers are as rare as hen's teeth. Helen is one of a very select band who have created a character, Bridget, of whom the very thought makes you smile. "Like millions of others, I can't wait to see what's happened to her." — Afp-Relaxnews |
| Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel planning book with Obama Posted: 10 Nov 2012 12:33 AM PST  Elie Wiesel and US President Barack Obama at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC in this file photo. — Afp pic In 2009, the pair visited the remains of Buchenwald concentration camp together, becoming friends in the process and maintaining contact since, explained Wiesel. Wiesel came to prominence with the 1960 publication of the Holocaust memoir Night (originally La Nuit) and wrote the play The Trial of God; 1985 novel The Fifth Son won a Grand Prix in Literature from the City of Paris, will his most recent, Otage (Hostage), is yet to be translated into English. The Obama-Wiesel project would be the fourth book written by Barack Obama, but the first with a co-author credit should the plan materialise, a rarity among presidential authors. Jimmy Carter, another Democratic president and a prolific writer, also shares co-author status on two of his works: Everything to Gain was written with his wife, Rosalynn, and The Little Baby Snoogle-Fleejer with his daughter, Amy. — Afp-Relaxnews |
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