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Step into the dark world of Tunnels with Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. The co-authors talk to AbeBooks about Deeper - the follow up to their 2007 fantasy bestseller, Tunnels, where teenage hero Will Burrows travels deeper underground and deeper into trouble.
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Is it a cookbook, a travel book or a coffee table photography book? Beyond the Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the Other China is all of these things.
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David Andelman, a longtime foreign correspondent, looks at the Treaty of Versailles and how it influenced conflicts around the world.
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AbeBooks talks to Kiran Desai about the luxury of the Booker Prize, life on the road and protests against The Inheritance of Loss.
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AbeBooks talks to Richard Gwyn about his life on the edge, poetry and his newest book, Deep Hanging Out.
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News of mass killings has everyone wondering "Why?"
Mark Ames tells AbeBooks why we're seeing more rage than we did 30 years ago.
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Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club talks about his new book Rant and why it might be a good idea to bring smelling salts with you to one of his readings.
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MC Beaton takes a break from her cigarettes, coffee and writing to talk to us about her bossy heroine, Agatha Raisin, life in the heart of the English countryside, and her favorite authors.
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Meg Gardiner tells us about what it’s like to not be published in your native country, Stephen King, and her international smuggling habits.
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At just 19 years of age, photographer Gered Mankowitz accompanied the young Rolling Stones on their first big tour of the USA. In an exclusive interview Mankowitz candidly reveals the truth about growing up in the world of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Lynne Truss tells us about her favourite bookstore, why she hates cyclists and how she scored ringside seats to the Lennox Lewis/Evander Holyfield fight.
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Matt Haig tells us how he channels Shakespeare, MySpace, and the universal subject of death to write and promote his books.
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Anthony Bourdain may be blunt but he's always entertaining. The chef-turned-author-turned-TV star tells it like it is when it comes to vegans, Gordon Ramsay, and the worst restaurant in the world.
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Helen Walsh talks to AbeBooks' Angie Reinhardt & Victoria Chater about her controversial debut novel Brass, women, and Liverpool nightlife.
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Former US Marine Nathaniel Fick's debut book One Bullet Away recounts his fear, disillusionment and guilt during the 2003 Iraqi invasion. He talks to AbeBooks about the polarized debate over Iraq, why he feels the US is in danger, and how leaving the Marines was the second best decision he has ever made.
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Alexander McCall Smith, creator of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, talks about gruesome fairytales, a scary book called Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare and much more in our exclusive interview.
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Chelsea Cain is the author of Confessions of a Teen Sleuth – an entertaining parody of Nancy Drew, which exposes everything you always wanted to know about the heroine from River Heights.
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The world remains fascinated with the mystique of Marie Antoinette. Elisabeth de Feydeau's A Scented Palace - which traces the story of Jean-Louis Fargeon, Marie's devoted perfumer - offers a fresh scent on the French monarch, her extravagant life and her dramatic demise.
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Jared Diamond - the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel and Why Sex is Fun - reveals why he loves birds and reading Italian in our exclusive author interview.
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Julian Barnes, bestselling author of Arthur & George talks with us about Sherlock Holmes, his favourite bookshop, and not winning the Booker.
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal has grabbed the attention of North America with her entertaining but highly insightful book Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life.
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Greene's new book, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, was sparked by his memories of a meeting with Harrison in December 1969 when the writer was a 19-year-old organ player...
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Alain de Botton’s career has been spent writing books that tackle questions of everyday life. They refer both to his experiences and ideas – and those of artists, philosophers and thinkers of the past.
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A language, kept secret for centuries in rural China, provides the back-drop to Lisa See’s latest novel, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - recently reviewed in USA Today & LA Times.
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Malcolm Gladwell prefers to write about the mundane, but extremely influential, aspects of life rather than the exotic. Published in January, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking has cemented his position as a leading cultural commentator and is a best-seller across the world.
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Anne Perry has been a published author since 1979 when The Cater Street Hangman hit the bookshelves. Now she has 50 books to her name with Long Spoon Lane – a tale of Victorian terrorism – published in April 2005.
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Broadcaster Gary Imlach recently won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for his account of his father’s footballing career in the 1950s - My Father and other Working-Class Football Heroes.
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Iain Banks has been one of the UK’s most productive and successful writers for the past 20 years. Find out why he’ll never leave Scotland and won’t be writing any more non-fiction books.
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One Sunday Morning is the latest offering from LA author Amy Ephron - find out why she thinks it is so hard to keep a secret in our exclusive AbeBooks interview.
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Yann Martel talks to AbeBooks about what he's reading, who he'd most like to have coffee with and, his favorite book.Yann Martel is winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for his novel Life of Pi.
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There may be an international flavour to Rick Browne's latest recipe collection The Big Book of Barbecue Sides, but in the barbecue master's opinion, nothing tops his Beer Butt Chicken.
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Four long hard years spent as a criminal forensic scientist in Cleveland gave Elizabeth Becka the inspiration for her debut novel - a crime thriller called Trace Evidence.
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