Orange Prize-winner Linda Grant has topped our chart this week with her novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, a story set in London in the 1970s.
Orange Prize-winner Linda Grant has topped our chart this week with her novel, The Clothes on Their Backs, a story set in London in the 1970s. Local author Steve Toltz's debut novel A Fraction of the Whole garnered an equal amount of mentions this week, continuing fiction's current prominence in the national book media.
Most Mentioned in the Media this week:
1 Clothes on Their Backs, The by Linda Grant
2 Fraction of the Whole, A by Steve Toltz
3 Landscape of Desire, The by Kevin Rabalais
4 Partisan's Daughter, A by Louis de Bernieres
5 Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto
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