Palin’s memoir becomes top seller - before release

September 29th, 2009 LONDON - Sarah Palin has penned her memoir in just four months after the announcement of the book deal, her publisher has revealed. The book, which was due next spring, will now hit the markets on Nov 17.he Telegraph quoted Jonathan Burnham, publisher of Harper, as saying: "Governor Palin has been unbelievably conscientious and hands-on at every stage, investing herself deeply and passionately in this project....

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - Inspired by US President Barack Obama, an African-born watermelon seller wants to become the first black man to hold public office in Russia. In fact, Joaquim Crima has also adopted a Russian patronymic, Vassily Ivanovich.

August 6th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A forthcoming memoir by presidential speechwriter Matt Latimer has left members of the Republican Party worried. The book, tentatively titled "Speech-Less," promises a "deliciously candid" "Devil Wears Prada"-style look inside the GOP machine from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon to the White House, reports the New York Post.

August 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin has dismissed rumours that she is getting a divorce from husband Todd and moving to Montana. The former Alaska's governor's spokeswoman Meg Stapleton posted on social networking site Facebook that the report on the net was false, the Politico reports.

July 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Al Qaeda chief Osama bin laden's son, Omar, has described his father as an evil man in his new memoir. According to the New York Daily News, Omar says that he first realized the depth of his father's evil when his beloved dogs were taken away and gassed in a chemical warfare experiment.

July 9th, 2009 NEW YORK - How Sarah Palin plays her next hand, politically or otherwise, will determine how well books about her or written by her will do in the publications market, the Politico reports. Earlier this year, Palin inked a deal with HarperCollins for her memoir, due out in spring 2010.

July 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - Sarah Palin's daughter's ex-boyfriend Levi Johnston is planning to pen a tell-all book. According to Johnston's bodyguard/publicist, Tank, he is planning to write a book that may also focus on the Wasilla, Alaska, political family.

June 15th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. president Barack Obama's half brother, George, is writing a memoir to be published by Simon and Schuster in January next year.

May 24th, 2009 LONDON - After more than 45 years, a former White House intern is breaking her silence to reveal the details of her 17-month affair with President John F Kennedy. Mimi Beardsley Alford, now 66, a retired New York church administrator, maintained the secret about her relationship with the womanising president until a new Kennedy biography was published in 2003.

May 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is looking for a multimillion-dollar contract for a memoir, which is expected to shed new light on George Bush's years and more.

May 13th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A memoir chronicling both Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's political and personal life will be published in spring 2010, publishing sources said. Even after her rocky run as last year's Republican vice presidential candidate, Palin has continued to be media's favourite topic.

April 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - After the former presidential hopeful John Edwards confessed to having an affair, his wife Elizabeth Edwards writes in her new book, "I cried and screamed, I went to the bathroom and threw up." Elizabeth, 59, who is terminally ill with cancer, speaks in far more detail than before about her husband's infidelity in her new memoir, "Resilience," due to be published May 12 by Broadway Books. Despite feeling deeply deceived, Elizabeth Edwards nonetheless publicly stood by her husband's side, lending his candidacy the aura of a warm, loving family life, reports the Daily News.

April 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Nicolle Wallace, the campaign adviser of Sarah Palin, is through with politics. Wallace, who was blamed for Palin's notorious 150,000-dollar clothes-shopping spree, told Marie Claire: "My professional life will never involve working on a campaign again." Instead, the 37-year-old said she's pursuing her "life's ambition" with her Republican lawyer hubby, Mark Wallace, of starting a family - with the help of in vitro fertilization treatments, reports The New York Post.

March 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Miley Cyrus has said that the release of 'Hannah Montana: The Movie' does not mean the end of her hit TV show, however, insisted she can't play the teen pop star throughout her life. The teen starlet is hoping that the movie, scheduled for an April 10 release, won't be the last time people get to see her beloved Disney character.

December 29th, 2008 WASHINGTON - Former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, has given birth to a son, People magazine reported. Bristol, 18, gave birth to a 3.3-kilogram baby boy in Palmer, Alaska Sunday, the magazine Monday quoted Palin's aunt, Colleen Jones, as saying.