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Publisher John Murray will release a special collector's edition of Stephen Hawking's last book on September 10 this year. The Collector's Edition will be exclusively available only for independent bookshops, reported The Bookseller.

A large party was held to celebrate the anniversaries of John Murray and Hodder & Stoughton, two UK-based publishing houses.

News is that Hawking's last book that he was working on before he died, titled Brief Answers to Big Questions, will be published later this year.

It was recently announced that the official biography of Stephen Hawking will be written by Graham Farmelo and published by John Murray Press.

Jnanpith awardee and bestselling author Amitav Ghosh's new book 'The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis' is all set to release in October this year. Read more details here.

“For centuries, it was believed that disabled people like me were living under a curse that was inflicted by God. Well, I suppose it's possible that I've upset someone up there, but I prefer to think that everything can be explained another way, by the laws of nature,” he wrote in the chapter titled “Is There a God?”

Indian essayist and novelist Meena Kandasamy's book "When I Hit You" makes it to the 2018 Dylan Thomas Prize.

The critics' comments seemed to weigh quite heavily on debut author Manu Joseph's mind at the launch of his book Serious Men' in Chennai.

ERWIN (Emotional Robot with Intelligent Network) is the world’s friendliest robot, built by an Indian student in UK, capable of expressing five basic emotions while interacting with a human.

An Indian-origin software engineer has won a prestigious award in the UK for creating an innovative electronic smart key system which enables the creation and management of keys and locks that cannot be copied or picked.

Scientists have raised fresh hopes of finding evidence of life on Mars with the detection of 'plumes' of methane gas on the red planet.

In a rare laurel for Ranthambore National Park, a documentary film on a tiger at the park has recently won three awards including that of the ‘best film award’ at a film festival in Jackson Hole, US.

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