Product Description

What fiction have British people been reading in the last hundred years? Who are the most popular authors, the most popular books and the most important genres? Such straightforward questions raise literary, cultural, social and intellectual responses which often require much detective work in the annals of lost literature. This guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1053673 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-05
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 292 pages

Professor John Sutherland, University College London
This is an important book in its own right...in this expanding field of cultural exploration

Professor Dominic Head, Brunel University
For pleasure, and for study, Bestsellers will be a much-thumbed work of reference

About the Author
CLIVE BLOOM is Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University. Widely published and Series Editor of our Crime File series, he is the author of Literature, Politics and Intellectual Crisis in Britain Today.

Customer Reviews

Bloom-ing brilliant
There are few studies out there that combine so effortlessly a clarity and ebullience of style with first-rate, high-level academia. This is not simply a romp through Jackie Collins and Jeffrey Archer, but a surprising and illuminating discussion of those authors that have shaped the way literature is viewed in this country today.