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The top novels of 2006 - Publishers, Dates, Authors and Titles
Literary bestsellers of 2006 including a debut from Afshin Rattansi and reflections by Margaret Atwood
1. The Dream of the Decade by Afshin Rattansi ( Booksurge, February )- Long-awaited debut by former BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera journalist about terrorism, the media, property and post-apocalyptic London: already tipped for the top (on sale at Amazon);
2. The Book of Dave by Will Self ( Viking, March )-post-apocalyptic London ( again! ): Nominated in 1993 as one of Granta magazine's 20 'Best of Young British Novelists 2';
3. Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre ( Faber, March ) - by former Booker prizewinning author: can he do it again?;
4. The Tent by Margaret Atwood ( Bloomsbury, March )-short story collection: a collection of brief essays, fictions, and self-mocking fancies on the experience of decay (on sale at Amazon);
5. In The Good Life by Jay McInerney( Bloomsbury, March )-like Rattansi, McInerney chooses to trace characters scarred by terrorism: hotly tipped;
6. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey ( Faber, May )-an artist fallen on hard times and his eccentric brother by the double Booker prizewinner;
7. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell ( Sceptre, May )- boyhood and adolescence;
8. jPod by Douglas Coupland ( Bloomsbury, June ) - geeks;
9. Restless by William Boyd ( Bloomsbury, September )- about the second world war;
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Edward Victor
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Harper Collins
(212) 207-7000
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