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Geraldine Brooks

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Geraldine Brooks is the author of the novels The Secret Chord, Caleb's Crossing, People of the Book, March (which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006) and Year of Wonders, recently optioned by Olivia Coleman. She has also written three works of non-fiction: Nine Parts of Desire, based on her experiences among Muslim women in the mideast, Foreign Correspondence, a memoir about an Australian childhood enriched by penpals around the world and her adult quest to find them, and The Idea of Home:Boyer Lectures 2011. Brooks started out as a reporter in her hometown, Sydney, and went on to cover conflicts...

Ina Garten

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Ina Garten is one of America's most loved culinary icons and the author of five previous bestselling cookery books. Her Barefoot Contessa cookery programmes are screened each day on UK TVFood. Ina writes a column on entertaining for America's Home Beautiful magazine and lives in East Hampton with her husband Jeffrey.