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Book Review: RED SEAS UNDER RED SKIES - Scott Lynch 
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Allison & Busby
Too cool for the simple garden gnome? 
Author Blog Awards - Nominations Open! 
Discovering Columbia Road Market 
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Drink to get more children reading! 
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Angela Savage
Karaoke competition results 
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AustCrime Online
Crime Wave Hits Port Fairy 
Gilgamesh Connections is holding a second Fable Competition!! 
Currently Reading - Buried for Pleasure, Edmund Crispin 
WYATT - Garry Disher 
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Australian Book Review
The Digital Revolution: Publishing in the Twenty-First Century 
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Barbara Fister
reading challenges 
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another fine mess – Paterson, Amazon, and the commodification of reading 
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BeWrite Books
BEWRITE BOOKS IS THE TOPS 
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Boomerang Book News
KOALA Awards 2009 winners announced, 'H I Larry' revealed 
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What's Hot in the Media 26th October 2009 
NSW Premier's History Award winners announced 
Pan Mac: print run for Reilly our highest ever for Aus author 
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Boomerang Book Reviews
To Touch the Clouds by Peter Watt 
A History of Cricket by Catherine Chambers 
Aussie Legends by Tom Baddeley 
Lost! A True Tale from the Bush by Stephanie Owen Reeder 
Saving Pandas by Carla Litchfield 
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
Arrival of the ARCS 
Book Club Sales (and some random stuff) 
A Writer And A Gentleman 
How'd That Reading Go, Soph? 
Reading With Russell Hill 
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Charlotte Grimshaw
The other side of the world 
Strange days 
Getting Out of the House 
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Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Sunday Smatterings With Extra Sugar 
Dark Passages: Boarding School Gothic 
Amy Bishop and the Intersection of Women, Violence and Art 
Smatterings With A Cover of Snow 
Memorializing Robert B. Parker 
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Crime Always Pays
The North Will Rise Again 
Blood Type A+ 
World Book Day, 2020 
The Peel Deal 
And So To Barcelona 
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Crime Beat
The marketplace of anxieties 
Thriller Talk from Jassy Mackenzie 
A clutch of krimis 
The buzz 
Extract from Killer Country by Mike Nicol 
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Crime Down Under
Reading Notes : The Zero Option by David Rollins 
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Crime Scene NI
Take a Filmtrip into the Future 
Death of the Pub Quiz 
Reading in the Air 
Lee Child Belfast Launch - Venue Details 
Reacher Wider Audience - News From David Torrans 
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Crime Scene Scotland
Around The Internet: James Lee Burke on Rain Gods 
No ordinary crime... 
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Crimespace
The Eye of the Beholder (34) 
Guest Blogger: Col Bury 
Let's Get it Started! 
The Eye of the Beholder (33) 
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Crimespot
Sorry About That, Folks 
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Crimewav.com
Episode 51: A Stab in the Heart by Twist Phelan 
Episode 50: The Big Wake-Up (Excerpt) by Mark Coggins 
Episode 49: Fatal Gamble by JP O'Donnell 
Episode 48: Out on Joppa by Robert Ward 
CrimeWAV News Break - An interruption for a most important announcement! 
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Detectives Beyond Borders
Youth is served, but will it pick up the check? 
Irish writing sucks not in the least 
The Informer 
Catarella highlight reels 
"Ah refuse tae be victimised": A bit on Glasgow patter 
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Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
Lennox Kemp and M.R.D. Meek 
Appleby Talks About Crime 
Original Sins? 
The Lives of Others 
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Eurocrime
Publishing Deals - Marklund, Mariani 
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Read an e-book week 
New Reviews: Burdett, Hayder, Lackberg, Leather, Maclean, Schlink & New Competition 
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Femmes Fatales
Spring is Icumen In... 
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Award season (and Agatha Best Short Story nominees!) 
How to Do Some Killer Promotion 
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Freemantle Arts Press
Holocaust memoir launched at Carmel 
Book Launch Invitation: Waarda 3 & 4 
Calling all cowgirls and cowboys 
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Guardian Book Blog
Writing fiction: it's just one word after another | AL Kennedy 
The ecological case for ebooks 
Is your reading suffering from multimedia overload? 
World exclusive! Finnegans Wake nonsense! 
The best and worst of times for publishing 
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Hey, There's A Dead Guy....
Flying the nest 
TO: Jon or NOT To: Jon Part Deux: The Dugong Strikes Back 
I, Humorist 
Baseball murders basketball 
ARCs 
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I Love a Good Mystery
To Kindle or Not To Kindle 
Canada Reads - Book Selections 
Crime Fiction Alphabet: I is for Ian Rankin 
Tower 
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Independent Crime
Wednesday Paperback Cover 
Plots With Guns 
Rumors of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated 
The New Laptop 
Review of The Deputy 
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International Noir Fiction
Shane Maloney: Sucked In 
Slow Horses, by Mick Herron 
Gunshot Road, by Adrian Hyland 
A Paragon of Virtue, by Christian von Ditfurth 
Peter Temple's Truth 
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It's a Crime
An apprenticeship in crime fiction? 
You've got to hand it to Sandra Bullock... 
This Bleeding City – Alex Preston (NON-CRIME) 
The Rapture - Liz Jensen 
BBC's The Culture Show seeks bookworms & reading enthusiasts 
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J J Cooper
My Writing Space 
New Review for The Interrogator 
Movember Day Twenty-Four 
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John Baker's Blog
An Enemy of the People 
Waiting for the Physio 
Winged with Death – The Audio Cover 
Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates 
A Voice From The Book Trade 
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Katherine Howell
More on COLD JUSTICE. 
'COLD JUSTICE' APPROACHES! 
Cold front coming soon! 
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Local - Swedish News in English
Computer use doesn't make kids fat: report 
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Matilda
2009 Australian Shadows Awards Shortlists 
Reprint: Obituary: Mrs. Campbell Praed 
Extract: The Ambassador's Mission by Trudi Canavan 
Australian Bookcovers #201 - The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke by C. J. Dennis 
Poem: To Jean Curlewis. (Ethel Turner's Daughter) by Zora Cross 
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Moments in Crime
The Other Linda 
Research can get downright harrowing... 
Speaking of sociopaths . . . 
They're out there . . . 
Sometimes a writer's inspiration comes from some very dark places 
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Murderati
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(Right) Place, (Right) Time 
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Nordic Bookblog
Postcard Killers, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund 
Lisbeth Salander – The Dragon Tattoo Girl – Coming soon to a theater near you! 
The Stone Cutter, by Camilla Läckberg 
Henning Mankell, Kurt Wallander and Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo 
Yrsa Sigurdardottir – about My Soul To Take 
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NZ Herald - Books
Blessed be the bakers 
In the moment 
Revisiting a master storyteller 
Nightmare world of thinking out loud 
Trip to interview writer over mother's death not ruled out 
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Penguin UK Blog
Interfacing 
How to win friends and influence people 
Around the World in 80 Books: the sixth leg 
A morning in the woods: diary of an editor 
In praise of independent bookshops 
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Pulpetti
Larry Cohen's Perfect Strangers/Blind Alley 
Christa Faust's Money Shot out in Finnish 
Christa Faustin Koston enkeli ulkona! 
Italian disco at its very best 
A bit more about the Harlequin vintage collection 
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Radio National's Book Show
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Reactions to Reading
Review: The Exception by Christian Jungersen 
Crime Fiction Alphabet: U is for Undertow 
Review: On Edge by Barbara Fister 
Crime Fiction Alphabet: T is for Timeline (not Taken) 
Review: Borderline by Nevada Barr 
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Readings Bookstores
Oslo Davis on Ian McEwan 
The Next Couch Obsession 
Going Bovine: Libba Bray 
Bestselling Teen Books: February 2010 
Andrew Porter 
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Reg Keeland - Translator
America set to be conquered by Stiegin mass market 
Quoted by the BBC 
UK Bestselling Books of 2009 
Excellent article about Stieg and Eva 
Tiina wins award from Swedish Academy! 
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Sally from Oz
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan 
The Brightest Star in the Sky by Marian Keyes 
The Secret of Killimooin by Enid Blyton 
Poison Study by Maria V Snyder 
Peony in Love 
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Scandinavian Crime Fiction
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Yrsa Sigurdardottir’s Last Rituals 
polar reversals 
The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin 
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Scribe
CAL/Scribe Fiction Prize Party 
Congratulations to Cate Kennedy 
The Egyptologist 
The Boy in the Moon: a father's search for his disabled son 
The Hidden Brain: how our unconscious minds elect presidents, control markets, wage wars, and save our lives 
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Shots Magazine
National Crime Fiction Week 
Of sHuTterEd IsLAnDs & Dragon Tattooed Woman 
TOP TWENTY UK BEST SELLERS 
Newsy Stuff 
Newsy Stuff – Award nominations! 
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Sons of Spade
Guest Blog by Stephen D. Rogers 
Sinner's Ball (Jackson Steeg) by Ira Berkowitz 
Loss (Gus Dury) by Tony Black 
No Mercy (Mercy Gunderson) by Lori Armstrong 
Q & A with E. Michael Terrell 
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Stephen Booth
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE STORYFEST 
WORLD BOOK DAY 
NEWSLETTER #24 
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Stuart MacBride
Competitionistical 
Corrupting the nation's children... 
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The Crimplemas Entropy Fairy Strikes! 
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Sunnie's Blog
Review: THE DARK SIDE - Roger Rogerson 
Top Gear and Richard Hammond 
Review: DARK MIRROR - Barry Maitland 
Review: COLD JUSTICE - Katherine Howell 
Best and worst of 2009 
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Sydney Morning Herald Book Blog
Writers' rules 
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Audacious to mendacious 
Writing jobs 
Geoff in Adelaide 
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The Big Thrill
Penny Rudolph's Eye of the Mountain God May ELLA Pick 
City-Pick Dublin - just in time for St. Patrick's Day! 
L.J. Sellers' next three novels in the Detective Wade Jackson series sold 
TOP NOTCH THRILLERS: New Titles: February 2010 
Veracity by Laura Bynum 
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The Dirt
Another year passes, another change in lifestyle 
February Pumpkin Patch & Duck Bath renovations 
Sorting out the Silkie Problem 
Silkie Girls 
The problem with Silkies.... 
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The Hieroglyphic Streets
Rembrandt van Rijn. 
Amsterdam through the ages. 
Van Gogh’s Arles. 
Murder in Amsterdam. 
A darker side of Amsterdam. 
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The Rap Sheet
“Why Live If You Haven’t Any Illusions?” 
No More Excuses, Folks 
Bullet Points: Midweek Musings Edition 
The Devil, You Say 
From the Quality Control Department 
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Words Without Borders
Three Percent: Reading the World Podcast #2: Susan Harris 
Black Lips 
Ilya on Poetry in Poetry 
New York City Event: Best Translated Book Awards 
London Event: Anthea Bell and Agnes Poirier on Stefan Zweig 
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