After university, Carol worked in America with elderly people with mental illness: she worked with men with head injuries, and for a time, living in British Columbia, she was a contributing copy editor for a newspaper.

US President Barack Obama has presented the US Medal of Freedom to more than a dozen political and cultural greats at a ceremony in Washington.

An award-winning journalist in Alaska, Eowyn enjoyed her varied job, but being a reporter was never her passion. So she left, and worked in an independent bookshop; and it was there that she gained the energy and creative spirit to experiment with fiction. She spent five years working on a novel.

Vanessa was raised in Chico, California, in a hippy community. After College she worked with homeless and foster children and loved it.

AFTER four years at the top of the list, it seems Harry Potter has lost some of his magic - to offend.

Reviews have been discouraging and conservatives are on the attack, but booksellers still expected the best as they braced for today’s release of Bill Clinton’s My Life, the year’s most anticipated non-fiction book.

Former US President Bill Clinton is set to publish his memoirs – called My Life – in late June, it has been announced.

NO doubt the George W Bush re-election campaign has already checked out John Kerry’s middle initial. The F, they’ll have discovered, stands for Franklin. It’s not a deed-poll trick by the Democrat challenger to make himself the next JFK.

Bill Clinton has agreed to write his memoirs.