Really, Really Bad Timing

“[UK] 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. Pictures promoting the novel show plumes of smoke curling above London’s skyline. The wording reads ‘a massive terrorist attack … launches this unique, twisted powerhouse of a novel’. Waterstone’s has removed all advertising for the book from today’s newspapers – except for the Guardian’s Guide, which went to press before the advert could be pulled.”