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Travel write
Hickman's globetrotting childhood, including a stint in Singapore, nurtured her love for writing about faraway places.
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Inside the Blair goldfish bowl
Cherie Blair tells Vikram Khanna she wrote her memoirs because 'I wanted people to see that I don't have horns on my head'
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Skeletons in her family's closet
Best-selling American author Marisa de los Santos' own experiences are the seeds for the unconventional families in her books
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Still steamy after 40 years
British author Jackie Collins, whose novels have been bestsellers for four decades, says she will write till she's 100.
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Forever young
Sally Nicholls used childhood memories of her struggle with diabetes in her debut novel about a boy dying of leukaemia.
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Careless In Red
Elizabeth George has redeemed herself - a little - with her latest book, Careless In Red.
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The sharper your knife, the less you cry
It gets all down and dirty as things go back to basics at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris.
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The exchange-rate between love and money
Strictly for those who like story threads flung at them every which way, as the author seems to have woven his thoughts together with film rights in mind.
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Alphabet Soup
Korean artist Suzy Lee made her book long and panoromic, the way people see the sea in real life.
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The cult of Jodi
American best-selling author Jodi Picoult finds the hot social issues she writes about are universal.
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Unlikely street friendship leads to Hollywood
A book tells the story of a promising violinist who developed schizophrenia and ended up living on the streets.
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Alphabet Soup
Here's a look at three winning pig tales.
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Alphabet Soup
Think art too highbrow a topic? Here's a look at three children's books that make it accessible for even toddlers just learning to read.
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Bookends
Reader Angela Hewitt is in town to perform her repertoire from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I and II) at the Victoria Concert Hall.
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Nip/Tuck for kids
A plastic surgeon in Florida has written a children's book about plastic surgery.
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Learning to live
Jose Saramago's comedic take on death makes you re-examine how to live.
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The Rose Labyrinth
The Rose Labyrinth is Titania Hardie's debut novel, and it shows.
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My life as a traitor
The title is provocative but it is not a gimmick.
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