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We mounted a campaign – not to have the book banned, but merely to have it removed from the children's sections of bookshops.
The Stop the War Coalition yesterday said it would be encouraging its supporters to continue the bookshop reshelving protest campaign begun with Blair's A Journey by moving Decision Points into the crime or fantasy sections of bookshops.
Got bananas?" This is one of the letters and emails that my Ghanaian wife and I received, when we asked that the Hergé book Tintin in the Congo be removed from the children's sections of bookshops back in 2007.
Though they weren't nearly as crowded, the "pop/rock" sections of bookshops looked much the same as they do now: crammed with pulp and hacked-out biography, but also dotted with works of real brilliance.
He owes his dominance of the mind/body/spirit sections of bookshops, in large part, to a mysterious cosmic force beyond all human understanding - specifically Oprah Winfrey, whose championing of his books, including a 10-week online seminar series, watched by 11 million people, has ensured their long-term tenure on bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic.
He had perhaps reckoned without the enduring popular fascination with the figure of Hitler, who dominates the history sections of bookshops and is covered in so many documentaries on the History Channel that it is sometimes referred to as the "Hitler channel".
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You spotted its cover everywhere: on train journeys, on coffee tables, enjoying pride of place in the autobiography section of bookshops.
The paperback edition of Wonder appears in a quite different and sparky section of bookshops than my lives of Shelley and Coleridge, and with a new style of cover, described by my publishers as "really edgy".
Written boldly, this sequence of events might see I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings consigned to the "difficult lives" section of bookshops, but this is not a misery memoir.
Today, you're more likely to find Tropic hidden in the erotic book section of many bookshops, and only small independent publishers have ever dared to print Journey in Britain.
His fictionalised memoir Trawl (1966) fetched up in the Angling section of Foyles bookshop.
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