Michel Houellebecq

Europe has experienced three terror attacks in recent times. Sixteen people were killed and more than 100 were seriously injured in two attacks in Spain and one in Finland.

'Submission' by Michel Houellebecq (Picador, 256 pages, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival appeared to be speedily backtracking on its earlier decision to pull a play by the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq - on the grounds that it might offend Muslims.

A play based on a novel "Elementary Particles", written by the controversial French writer Michel Houellebecq, has been pulled from the program of the upcoming 66th Dubrovnik Summer Games.