Boomerang Books Info Bank

Murray Bail's novel The Pages has appeared on the Most Mentioned chart for the third week in a row. Close behind is Sebastian Barry--the celebrated Irish author--with his book The Secret Scriptures. Roseanne, thought to be 100 years old, is the protagonist of the story. She is installed in a mental institution as a young woman, and when the centre is due to close it gives the people around her a reason to look into her past.

Most mentioned in the media this week:

1 Pages, The by Murray Bail

2 Black Jack Anderson by Elaine Forrestal

3 Secret Scripture, The by Sebastian Barry

4 When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

5 God, Actually: Why God Probably Exists, Why Jesus was Probably Divine and Why the ''Rational'' Objections to Religion Are Unconvincing by Roy Williams

http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/07/08846/

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 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

Tags: whats hot in the media