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2011

November 2011: Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney published in paperback in the U.S.A., Canada and Brazil.

5 September 2011: Fred & Rose now available as an e-book.

September 2011: The new revised and expanded edition of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan is published as an e-book. Click here.

August 2011: Howard Sounes' biography of Paul McCartney is published in translation in Finland by Otava http://www.otava.fi/kirjat/tieto/2011/fi_FI/paul_mccartney/

6 June 2011: Booklist features Fab as one of its 'Top Ten Biographies of 2011': http://www.booklistonline.com/ProductInfo.aspx?pid=4853929&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

June 2011: Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney is published in the U.K. by HarperCollins as a paperback and e-book. Click here.

24 May 2011: A new expanded edition of Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, bringing the story of Dylan's life up to date, is published in the U.K. by Doubleday and in the U.S.A. by Grove Press to mark Dylan's 70th birthday.

22 May 2011: Writing in the Observer, Dylan admirers including Chrissie Hynde, Howard Sounes, Geoff Dyer and Cate Blanchett suggest 70th birthday gifts for the poet-troubadour -  http://tinyurl.com/42x8ahd

7 May 2011: Professor Sir Christopher Ricks discusses Bob Dylan at 70 with Howard Sounes on the BBC World Service - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00gdt6y

April 2011: The latest reprint of Heist includes an update on the recent conviction of 'Lighting' Lee Murray for his part in the £53 million Securitas robbery.

22 March 2011: Fab: Het Leven van Paul McCartney published in Dutch translation by Ambo.

Spring 2011: Den Sande Historie om Paul McCartney published in Danish translation by Lindhardt og Ringhof.

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2010

November 2010: Paul McCartney: Das Portät published in German translation by Droemer. 

2 November 2010: Howard Sounes visits Toronto to launch the Canadian edition of Fab.

August 2010: Fab is serialised in the Daily Mail.

7 August 2010: Howard Sounes delivers a lecture on the 1970s at the Anni Ribelli cultural festival in Brienza, Italy.

Summer 2010: Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney is published in the U.K. and U.S.A.

July 2010: Fred & Rose is published in a new jacket by Sphere as a 'true-crime classic' - 15 years after first publication.

4 May 2010: BBC Radio 4 broadcasts 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll', a documentary about the  protest song, presented by Dylan biographer Howard Sounes. Read an online article - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s77wp

6 February 2010: Charles Bukowski's publisher John Martin and biographer Howard Sounes discuss the writer with Evan Davis on the Today programme, BBC Radio 4.

20 January 2010: Howard Sounes talks about Charles Bukowski on the Verb, BBC Radio 3.

January 2010:  Reviewing the new edition of Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (Canongate, £9.99), Victoria Segal writes in the Guardian that Sounes 'distils Bukowski's unlovely life into biographical firewater'.

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2009

21 September 2009: Film director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) wants to make a movie based on Howard Sounes' forthcoming book Heist, according to Variety. Heist is under option to U.S. production company XYZ.

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2008

7 February 2008: Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is published in French translation by Editions du Rocher of Paris as Bukowski: une vie de fou. "... the first biography worthy of the name devoted to Buk," concludes Le Figaro.

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2007

November 2007: Howard Sounes is profiled on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Sounes

July 2007: Paperback publication of Seventies in the U.K. by Simon & Schuster.

July 2007: Charles Bukowski's novel Hollywood is published in a new U.K. edition by Canongate with an introduction by Howard Sounes.

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2006

October 2006: Rome publisher Laterza Editore announces an Italian translation of Seventies.

September 2006: Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life is published in translation in Sweden,by Härnqvists bokförlag as Bukowski: En Biografi. “... not the first book about Bukowski – but the best,” reports Svenka Dagbladet .

14 August 2006: Howard Sounes appears on Radio 4's Today programme to talk about Seventies.

7 August 2006: Hardback publication of Seventies in the U.K., by Simon & Schuster.

3 August 2006: 'The Seventies are written off as trashy. Wrong ...' Howard Sounes writes in The Times

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