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What's hot in the media - 11 March 2008

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.

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The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant

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

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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