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Adventure Escape into a book	Fantasy Tales from other lands Also try these sites fantasticfiction.com	Science Fiction Leave this world
Australian Fancy something patriotic?	Historical Go back in time.	Sea Stories Venture to the high seas.
Biographies Read about someone's life?	Horror Like blood?	Short Stories Need a quick read?
Chicklit It's a girl thing.	Humour Need a laugh?	Talking Books Listen to a book
Contempory Fiction Read the current trend	Magazines Find out all the gossip	Thrillers Scare yourself
Crime Hooked on Crime? Also try these sites stopyourkillingme.com Overseas Crime	Music Listen to something	Travel Live a dream.
DVD's Watch something	Newspapers What's going on?	Westerns Visit the wild west
Family Sagas Follow a family	Romance Find love Also try these sites Romance	War Stories Re-live the past.

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Radio National - RN Book Show

Antonia Fraser on writing historical biography
It's been 40 years since the publication of Antonia Fraser's award winning biography Mary Queen of Scots
Nick Hornby's Juliet Naked (review)
Music is a strong theme in Nick Hornby's writing
Writing about music
Igor Stravinsky claimed that music is beyond verbal description
John Banville: The Infinities
The Infinities is a marvellous, funny, gently erudite and wise book and it's set in a crumbling house on a midsummer's day where a family is attending the deathbed of the paterfamilias, one Adam Godley
A New Literary History of America
Greil Marcus says that the purpose of A New Literary History of America was to set American speech in motion
Off the Shelf with Philip Hensher
It's always interesting to hear what people like to read, but even more so when that person writes and reads for a living
Napoleon's romantic novella
Napoleon Bonaparte is considered one of the greatest military leaders in history, and his relationship with Josephine is one of the most enduring love stories