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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.
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.
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