Chark Blog - Best books of 2006

Monday, December 18, 2006

Best books of 2006

We are all suspicious of lists, particularly lists based on subjectivity. The newspapers are full of Christmas choices of books. There might be an element of mutual back-scratching, of intellectual snobbery or exhibitionism, or simply puffery. Yesterday I blogged/bragged about one of our titles in the New York Times best of 2006 which is probably the most objective list.

I have since discovered that we publish three of the best ten and here they are.

Falling Through The Earth

Danielle Trussoni's Falling through the earth, Rory Stewart's Occupational hazards and once again Claire Messud's Emperor's children.

Occupational Hazards

The Emperor's Children

I hope all our independent bookselling colleagues are stocking these titles as an antidote to celebrity biographies!

12/18/2006 9:08:27 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Why is Mark Steyn's book America Alone not being published in the UK?

Equally baffling is the absence from British publishers' lists of Theodore Dalrymple's many books, particularly Romancing Opiates.

Anne

Anne Weale

12/18/2006 6:55:58 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Indeed, I was stocking the first one before you published it.

Jonathan Main

12/19/2006 6:59:05 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Jonathan [if I may?] Puzzled by your comment, I went to your bookshop and found that you have the US edition of Steyn's book and also a Cambridge UP paperback of a book by different authors with the same title.

By the way, your site took a long time to load [on a broadband connection] at five minutes to seven UK time. Something not quite right there.

Forgot to check if you have any Dalrymple titles.
Will do so later.

Anne

Anne Weale

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