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Author Xinran captured the attention of many a reader with her bestselling book The Good Women of China about Chinese mothers who had lost, or had to abandon their daughters. She’s back with a new book called Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother, which is an extension of the themes explored in her first book. Also appearing on this week’s Most Mentioned chart were Wendy James’ Where Have You Been?, Rebecca Stead’s When You Reach Me, Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow and Shira Nayman’s The Listener–Media Extra.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love, by Xinran
2 Pregnant Widow, The by Martin Amis
3 Where Have You Been?, by Wendy James
4 Long Song, The by Andrea Levy
5 When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2010/02/14821/

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 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

The death of writer J D Salinger dominated the book news pages this weekend as the book world mourned a classic author. Salinger’s most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, received the most mentions this week. Alexander McCall Smith’s Double Comfort Safari Club garnered five mentions for itself. And a handful of mentions went to Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow, Garry Disher’s Wyatt and Ross Fitzgerald’s My Name Is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey–Media Extra.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Catcher in the Rye, The by J D Salinger
2 Double Comfort Safari Club, The by Alexander McCall Smith
3 Pregnant Widow, The by Martin Amis
4 Wyatt, by Garry Disher
5 My Name Is Ross: An Alcoholic’s Journey, by Ross Fitzgerald

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2010/01/14665/

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 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.