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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.

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