According to Wikipedia, Brooks is one of the biggest-selling fantasy writer alive, with over 21 million copies of his books in print, including 24 Shannara books (and counting).

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In this adaptation of the best-selling novel by Allison Pearson (the wife of Anthony Lane, a writer for this magazine), Sarah Jessica Parker stars as Kate Reddy, a Boston investment banker and frequent flyer whose heavy travel routine burdens her with guilt as it makes life at home hard for her architect husband, Richard (Greg Kinnear), and their two small children.

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Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford praised the work of a fellow writer.

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Michael Levin is an eight-time best-selling author, a former member of the Authors Guild Council and a business writer.

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Best-selling author of Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, was in eighth place, while Janet Evanovich, the writer behind the Stephanie Plum novels, was at number nine.

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Best-selling crime writer RJ Ellory has turned out to be the latest author exposed in the ongoing saga of fake Amazon reviews, a can of worm that just keeps on wriggling.

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