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Power of paranoia
US thriller writer Greg Hurwitz gets a lot of his ideas by fearing the worst.
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Michelin restaurant critics embrace Twitter
US reviewers for the famously secretive guides sacrifice a century of tradition by discussing the dark arts of their trade on the internet.
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A page-turner to beat the best
An NZ woman has been crowned Australia's fastest reader after becoming one of the first people to read Dan Brown's novel The Lost Symbol.
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The author who writes like a journalist
Growing up in a conservative Indian town in the 1980s, Aravind Adiga devoured literature, most of it English.
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<i>Book lover:</i> Patricia Wright
Patricia Wright sings the role of Madam Larina in the opera Eugene Onegin
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Historical novel a class act
It's hardly surprising that this book has zoomed up the New Zealand bestseller lists. Combining costume drama and crime with a spirited heroine and a dash of feminism, it is frightfully good, as they might have said back in 1924