The books: strong showing for fiction, children’s

25 January 2013 Books+Publishing

Despite a generally lukewarm response to the fiction on offer from booksellers in our pre-Christmas survey, many respondents reported that fiction titles outperformed the traditional Christmas favourites of biographies and cookbooks this year. In fiction, Bryce Courtenay’s Jack of Diamonds (Viking) held on to the number one spot, just ahead of literary favourites...