Most mentioned books this week

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Posted: 31 August 2010 at 12:56 pm

Two books topped the most mentioned chart this week: Bereft (Chris Womersley, Scribe), a postwar tale of loneliness and suffering during the Spanish flu epidemic in Australia, and Freedom (Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate) about a US Midwestern family and the temptations and burdens of liberty. Also on the most mentioned chart are Atlantic (Simon Winchester, HarperPress) a history across the Atlantic ocean, the chilling thriller Trick of the Dark (Val McDermid, Little, Brown) and Mary Delahunty’s memoirs Public Life, Private Grief (Hardie Grant)—Media Extra

 

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