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What's hot in the media - 11 February 2008If we were to award authors a prize for the best-named protagonist in a novel, Paul Torday would have a fighting chance of winning.Published 11 February, 2008 
If we were to award authors a prize for the best-named protagonist in a novel, Paul Torday would have a fighting chance of winning. Wilberforce is the main character in Torday's Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, which came in on top of our Most Mentioned chart this week. Wilberforce is a young, wealthy workaholic who stumbles upon a new direction in his life when he takes an unplanned detour on the way home one night. Most Mentioned in the Media this week: 1 Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce, The by Paul Torday 2 How Good Are You? Clean Living in a Dirty World by Julian Lee 3 People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks 4 His Illegal Self by Peter Carey 5 Whale Warriors, The by Peter Heller This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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