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Books: Court and conflict make gripping drama
Changing fortunes in Tudor times have ring of reality.
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The best books of the year
INTERACTIVE: Our annual guide to the best books to give and receive this Christmas. Guess which ones made the list.
![Books: Punk rides again](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=795)
Books: Punk rides again
Comic book artist Ant Sang talks to David Larsen about his ‘transformational journey’
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Books: Small steps towards fascism
The conversation turns to how to end the world when David Larsen talks to writer Jo Walton.
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Books: Pulling the plug
Meetings with prize-winning authors form the basis for new satire, writes Stephen Jewell.
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Books: Elementary, my dear
Anthony Horowitz talks to Linda Herrick about shocking his readers with his new Sherlock, why he wrote with a fountain pen and how his difficult school years drove him to the world of books.
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Travel book review: <I>View From The Road</I>
This journey along State Highway 1 show that the nation's backbone is a place of life as well as an inanimate stretch of bitumen, writes Alex Robertson.
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Books: Ian Wedde goes there and back again
Ian Wedde retraces his childhood steps from Blenheim to Pakistan, Bangladesh, England and Jordan, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.
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Books: Rosie's back, with baby on board
Sequel continues the adventures of lovelorn Asperger's hero.
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Stephen Jewell: A dangerously unstable king
Society must not forget Henry VIII was a child abuser and wife killer, author Philippa Gregory tells Stephen Jewell.