The bookselling giant Waterstone's yesterday pulled advertising for a new novel about suicide bombers creating mayhem in London.

The book, called Incendiary, was published on Thursday, the day all-too real bombs hit London.

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The book's author, Chris Cleave, 32, a first-time novelist, said the timing was "macabre and a horrible coincidence".

The premise of the novel, set a few years in the future, is a suicide bomber attack on Arsenal's new stadium, a couple of miles from King's Cross.

The novel is formed as an open letter from the woman to Osama bin Laden. "It's really a book about love in a time of terror. Her theory is that she can make Osama stop if she can make him understand for one second what it is to love..."

# posted by Gerry Canavan @ 9:27 PM  |