Most interesting for me was an author named Kim Harrison, who is the third top selling female author of e-books with Dead Witch Walking.

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Steel, whose titles include Star, Echoes and Sisters, is the only writer to appear in the most borrowed author top 10 every year since 1999.

BBC: Jacqueline Wilson most loaned author of the decade

Ironically, though, the doyen of Roman cookery teachers is English writer Diane Seed, author of The Top One Hundred Pasta Sauces.

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