The latest Nielsen list of New Zealand
bestsellers is out,
for the week ending 17 November. Good to see my friends Maxine Alterio at #1
with Lives We Leave Behind and Brian
Turner at #3 with Elemental. Hamish
Clayton is at #7 with his brilliant debut novel Wulf (February 2011) and Paula Morris’s Rangatira (November 2011) is hanging in at #10. Excellent.
Best of all, Bill Manhire has been put in
his place: his Selected Poems, #9,
has been pipped by the new #8, The Moderately Hungry Maggot which is the
latest from, er, Bill Manhire.
Paul Cleave had The Laughter House and Collecting Cooper in the top ten together. Can't remember the positions.
ReplyDeleteI hope he didn't steal that sign.
ReplyDelete@Vanda, yes of course. Thanks. I have a vague idea that Jenny Pattrick might have done the same. And in non-fiction I'm sure Annabel Langbein has had two at once.
ReplyDelete@Flora - not our Bill. He is as honest as the day is long, and the days are getting longer.
There are 2 Paul Cleave this week and 2 Witi Ihimaera. Jenny Pattrick manages it quite often.
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