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The Economist has listed its best books of the year. They join the New Yorker in picking Read more
This being 2009, we are being treated to ‘Best of’ lists which cover all of the noughties (Technically, the end of next year could be considered the end of the decade, but we had this discussion for the End of the Millennium so let’s not go into it again.
Geoff Dyer’s genre-defying, profound and deeply funny novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, got a mention on the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2009 list.
Check out their fiction and non-fiction lists here (and stay for their ‘Best of’ lists of absolutely everything. And Read more
Readings Books Music Film have chosen their Best Fiction of 2009. They say This Is How, Truth, Dog Boy, The Death of Bunny Munro, The Women in Black and Sum were among the best in fiction this year. We quite agree.
Readings Books Music Film have picked their best non-fiction books of 2009. We are very pleased to see The Corner, Affection and The Water Dreamers on this esteemed best-of list.
‘Mysteriously underrated among this year’s novels was MJ Hyland’s This Is How; but then, Hyland’s talent in itself is mysterious.
Yes, it’s that time of year: when readers and reviewers look back on the year of books that was. So we thought we’d share some of the nice things people are saying about the terrific books we’ve been proud to publish in 2009.
No Christmas would be complete without the Chaser team’s
review of the year in politics and the media
The Chaser Annual 2009: The Email Eunuch
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