B is for bestseller.
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That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.
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My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it.
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I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.
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I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.
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