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Barbara Kingsolver, author of The Poisonwood Bible, received all manner of mentions in Media Extra over the weekend. Her new book, The Lacuna, has been keenly awaited as it’s her first novel in nine years. In the book, main character Harrison Shepherd embarks on a journey from Mexico to America. Alex Miller’s protagonist in his new novel Lovesong is also on a journey; when he seeks shelter in a Parisian cafe from a sudden rainstorm he meets the niece of the cafe owner–which changes everything. Nick Hornby is in both the book and film pages at present. His new book Juliet, Naked is getting a bit of press and it can’t be bad for publicity that An Education, for which Hornby wrote the screenplay, has just been released in cinemas. Patricia Cornwall’s Scarpetta Factor and Garrison Keillor’s Pilgrims also featured on the Most Mentioned chart this week.

Most mentioned in the Media this week

1 Lacuna, The by Barbara Kingsolver
2 Lovesong, by Alex Miller
3 Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
4 Pilgrims, by Garrison Keillor
5 Scarpetta Factor, by Patricia Cornwell

Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2009/11/13943/

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.

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