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Sat 10 Oct 2009Breaking the heroic mould
IN THE BOOK trade, October 1st was “Super Thursday”, the day it blitzed the bookshop shelves with 800 new hardback titles all vying for top place on Christmas wish lists. For Stieg Larsson fans, there was only one book on that list,
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest, the final part in the
Millenniumtrilogy. It was so desperately anticipated that advance sales on Amazon made the English translation of the Swedish crime thriller an instant bestseller, and its release was shrouded in the sort of secrecy usually associated with the latest books from JK Rowling or Dan Brown.
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