Question: What nationality is the quick read that is called scones when cut in wedges?

Context articles: Ice wedge
Business cycle accounting
TVR 420 SEAC
The Spanish Helmet
The Highway Men (MacLeod novel)
Princess cut
Staple remover
Balep
Potatonik
Bannock (food)

An ice wedge is a crack in the ground formed by a narrow or thin piece of ice that measures up to 3–4 meters in length at ground level and extends downwards into the ground up to several meters.
 During the winter months, the water in the ground freezes and expands.
 Once temperatures reach −17 degrees Celsius or lower, the ice that has already formed acts like a solid and expands to form cracks in the surface known as ice wedges.
 As this process continues over many years ice wedges can grow, up to the size of a swimming pool.
 Ice wedges usually appear in a polygonal pattern known as ice wedge polygons.
 The cracks can also be filled with materials other than ice, especially sand, and then they're called sand wedges.
Business cycle accounting is an accounting procedure used in macroeconomics to decompose business cycle fluctuations into contributing factors.
 The procedure was introduced by V. V. Chari, Patrick Kehoe and Ellen McGrattan but is similar to techniques introduced earlier.
 The underlying premise of the procedure is that the economy has a long run trajectory which is perturbed by various frictions.
 These are called wedges and the earliest version of the procedure includes a productivity wedge, a labor wedge, an investment wedge and a government consumption wedge.
 Business cycle accounting decomposes fluctuations in macroeconomic variables, such as GDP or employment, into fluctuations of each of these wedges (and their combinations).
The TVR 420 SEAC is a sports car designed and built by TVR between 1986 and 1988.
 It is considered as the ultimate "wedge" TVR and is the final of TVR wedge family.
 Unlike the other wedges the 420 SEAC was different.
 The acronym SEAC stands for Special Equipment Aramid Composite, that means that more than 20% of the body was kevlar unlike the others wedges full fibreglass construction.
 The use of kevlar made the car more than 100 kg lighter without compromising the body rigidity.
 That, in addition to the highly tuned Rover V8 engine made the car extremely quick but had its effect on price which was twice as much as a standard 350i.
 In addition the SEAC models can be distinguished by the large rear spoiler and the rounder nose.
 By 1988 when the 420 SEAC was replaced by the even more powerful 450 SEAC about 40 cars had been built.
The Spanish Helmet is a thriller/historical fiction novel by Swiss/New Zealand author Greg Scowen.
 Published in 2011, it is the first book featuring Scowen's character Dr. Matthew Cameron.
 The novel received mixed reviews in New Zealand newspapers due to its handling of controversial theories relating to New Zealand's accepted history.
 While one book reviewer praised the novel for a thought-provoking story-line, another labelled sub-plots of the debut work as laughable.
 Most agree that despite the sometimes 'clunky' writing, "The Spanish Helmet" is a fun, easy and quick read.
"The Highway Men" is a 2006 science fiction novella by British writer Ken MacLeod.
 It plays out in the Scottish Highlands in a near future dominated by war with China and by climate-change.
 The book was published by Sandstone Vista, an imprint of Sandstone Press "developed for readers who are not used to full-length novels, or for those who simply want to enjoy a 'quick read.'"
The princess cut is the second most popular cut shape for diamonds, next to a round brilliant.
 The face-up shape of the princess cut is square or rectangular and the profile or side-on shape is similar to that of an inverted pyramid with four beveled sides.
 The princess cut is a relatively new diamond cut, having been created in the 1960s.
 It has gained in popularity in recent years as a more distinctive alternative to the more popular round brilliant cut, in which the top of diamond, called the crown, is cut with a round face-up shape and the bottom, called the pavilion, is shaped similar to a cone.
 A princess cut with the same width as the diameter of a round brilliant will weigh more as it has four corners which would otherwise have been cut off and rounded to form a round brilliant.
 The princess cut is sometimes referred to as a square modified brilliant.
 However, while displaying a good degree of brilliance, its faceting style is unique and completely different from that of a round brilliant.
 The Princess cut had its origins in the early "French" cut, having a step-modified "Double-French" or "Cross" cut crown and a series of unique, chevron-shaped facets in the pavilion which combine to give a distinct cross-shaped reflection when the stone is viewed directly through the table.
 The Barion shaped cut has now been renamed the "Princess cut".
A staple remover is a device that allows for the quick removal of a staple from a material without causing damage.
 The best-known form of staple remover, designed for light-gauge staples, consists essentially of "a") two opposing, pivot-mounted pairs of thin, steep wedges and "b") a spring that returns the device to the open position after use.
 Although a simple metal wedge can be used for the same purpose, and although some staplers (especially small ones about 1.5 in long) feature such a wedge at their hinge end, use of the wedge tends to tear fragile papers.
Balep is a Tibetan bannock quickbread.
 There are also other types of Tibetan cuisine "balep" breads and fried pies including:
Potatonik may refer to two distinct potato-based dishes derived from Ashkenazi Jewish cuisine.
 One version is a hybrid between potato kugel and bread, containing shredded potatoes and onions as well as ample flour and leavened with yeast.
 Another dish, apparently unrelated but called by the same name, is essentially a very large latke meant to be cut into wedges at the table.
 Also known as Geribinik.
Bannock is a variety of flat quick bread or any large, round article baked or cooked from grain.
 When a round bannock is cut into wedges, the wedges are often called "scones".
 However, in Scotland the words "bannock" and "scone" are often used interchangeably.