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Sky Arts: The Book Show</title>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5519/claire_bertschinger.html</link>
 <title>Claire Bertschinger</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:00 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Claire Bertschinger did not set out to become an author. "I always wanted to be a nurse" she says, and it was that profession that led her into a way of life that she could not possibly have previously imagined: she became a Red Cross aid worker in Africa, and is credited with inspiring Bob Geldof in his Band Aid and Live Aid fundraising ventures...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5518/salman_rushdie.html</link>
 <title>Salman Rushdie</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:59 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie is one of the UK's most famous and highly-acclaimed authors. An essayist and fiction writer, he was born in Bombay, but moved to England in his youth and now divides his time between the UK and New York...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5517/william_boyd.html</link>
 <title>William Boyd</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:58 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[William Boyd CBE (he was awarded the honour 2005) is an acclaimed and multi award-winning author...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5516/robert_harris.html</link>
 <title>Robert Harris</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:57 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert Harris began his career as a journalist and TV reporter, before going on to become one of Britain's most popular novelists...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5515/lynne_truss.html</link>
 <title>Lynne Truss</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:56 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Lynne Truss graduated from University College London and, after a brief spell as an assistant librarian, she became a journalist, writing variously for The Times, The Independent on Sunday and the Times Educational Supplement, before ending up with a regular spot on The Times as a sports reporter...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5514/ruth_rendell.html</link>
 <title>Ruth Rendell</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:55 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Ruth Rendell is the best-selling British mystery and psychological crime writer. Following an early career as a journalist (she was reputedly fired from her position on a local newspaper having filed a story about an annual dinner that she hadn't actually attended, thereby missing the sudden death of the after dinner speaker...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5513/daisy_waugh.html</link>
 <title>Daisy Waugh</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:54 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[It's perhaps surprising that Daisy Waugh became an author. Having been an agony aunt, restaurant critic, aspiring tennis player, journalist and much more...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5512/julian_barnes.html</link>
 <title>Julian Barnes</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Novelist and short story writer Julian Barnes is often heralded as a figurehead for postmodernism in literature, and is regularly nominated for the Man Booker Prize, having been shortlisted at regular intervals for Flaubert's Parrot (1984), England, England (1998) and his most recent book, Arthur & George (2005), respectively...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5511/chris_ryan.html</link>
 <title>Chris Ryan</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Chris Ryan is perhaps, on the face of it, an unlikely author. After all, ex-soldiers are not unique. But while not unique as an ex-soldier, he is certainly unique in other ways...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5510/john_mortimer.html</link>
 <title>John Mortimer</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:52 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[John Mortimer (or, to give him his full title, Sir John Clifford Mortimer, CBE QC) was born in 1932. He attended Harrow and Oxford, and subsequently (and famously) worked as a barrister before hanging up his wig and becoming one of the country's most prolific writers and dramatists...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5509/hunter_davies.html</link>
 <title>Hunter Davies</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:51 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Hunter Davies is the prolific and award-winning journalist and biographer, who is perhaps best known for his sporting books and various tomes on the Beatles...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5508/douglas_kennedy.html</link>
 <title>Douglas Kennedy</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:50 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan in 1955. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and on graduating, he started a co-operative theatre company with a friend...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5507/michael_dobbs.html</link>
 <title>Michael Dobbs</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:46 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Michael Dobbs is an author with history. A former aide to Margaret Thatcher, he was at her side when she entered Downing Street as Prime Minister and was a key advisor to John Major when he was voted out...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5506/terry_pratchett.html</link>
 <title>Terry Pratchett</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:44 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett is something of a phenomenon. Despite writing in an area not known for its mass-market appeal, he is nevertheless one of Britain's most popular living writers...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5505/john_banville.html</link>
 <title>John Banville</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:43 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Considered by many to be a master stylist of the English language - indeed 'Lord of language' by some - John Banville's roots were relatively humble...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5504/louise_rennison.html</link>
 <title>Louise Rennison</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:42 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Louise Rennison - author, comedienne and scriptwriter - was born in Yorkshire, and in spite of her autobiographical one-woman live show Stevie Wonder Felt My Face in the 1990s and her regular contributions to various comedy scripts, she is probably most well-known for her best-selling Confessions of Georgia Nicolson series of books for teenage girls...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5503/anthony_horowitz.html</link>
 <title>Anthony Horowitz</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:40 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Anthony Horowitz has written rather a lot: he has several series of books to his name; has written episodes of several popular TV crime series including Poirot, Murder in Mind and Midsomer Murders... ]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5502/ben_schott.html</link>
 <title>Ben Schott</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:39 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Writer, miscellanist, advertising agency executive and freelance photographer, Ben Schott has a number of strings to his considerable bow...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5501/patrick_mccabe.html</link>
 <title>Patrick McCabe</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:37 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Playwright and novelist Patrick McCabe was born in 1955 in Clones, County Monaghan, Ireland. He is the author of five novels, which tend to be noted for their rather bleak content...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5500/maggie_gee.html</link>
 <title>Maggie Gee</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Award-winning Maggie Gee was born in Dorset, and following degrees at Oxford and a career in publishing, her first novel, Dying, in Other Words was published in 1981...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5455/authors_featured_in_series_1.html</link>
 <title>Authors featured in Series 1</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:53 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Throughout Series 1, Mariella Frostrup talked to some of the biggest names in the book world...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5497/mark_haddon.html</link>
 <title>Mark Haddon</title>
 <pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:29 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Haddon exploded on to the literary scene with his book, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, but it's less well-know that he was writing - albeit for a different audience - a long time before success came calling... ]]></description>
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 <title>Sarah Waters</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:17 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[...on the art of her self-declared "lesbo Victorian romps"...]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5464/nick_hornby.html</link>
 <title>Nick Hornby</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:13 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[...on his latest novel, the intriquingly-titled The Complete Polysyllabic Spree]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5462/tony_visconti.html</link>
 <title>Tony Visconti</title>
 <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:10 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[...on his autobiography, Bowie, Bolan and the Brooklyn Boy]]></description>
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 <link>http://thebookshow.skyarts.co.uk/lastseries/lastseriesauthors/5415/jung_chang.html</link>
 <title>Jung Chang</title>
 <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:16 +0000</pubDate>
 <description><![CDATA[...on China, her childhood and her epic new biography of Mao Zedong.]]></description>
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