First of a christmas special. this week we had six guests (Maggie Perkovic, Corinna Christopher, Brian Lowen, Malcolm Martland, Ro Bennett & Babs Simpson)in the studio and looked back over the centurys fiction & non-fiction bestsellers in decades, so we had 1909. 1919, 1929 etc.right up until 2009. This was also interspersed with a sprinkling of christmas jokes.
A quick taste of the fiction books that were around, remember any?:
1909: The Trail of the Lonsesome Pine by John Fox Jnr. (well most of us know the song)
1919: The Four Horsement of the Apocalypse by V Blasco Ibanez
1929: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque ( recognised non-fiction was 'Believe it or Not' by Robert L Ripley)
1939: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck & Rebeccas by Daphne Du Maurier (recognised non-fiction was Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler)
1949: Pride's Castle by Frank Yerby (couple of us had read his books), interestingly there were 3 non-fiction all about Canasta!
1959: Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, Hawaii by James Michener (very good author) & Lady Cahtterley's Lover by DH Lawrence. (Maggie had to swoon over the non-fiction Twixt Twelve and Twenty by Pat Boone).
1969: The Godfather by Mario Puzo, Inheritors Harold Robbins (NF: the Galloping Gourmet, Graham Kerr).
1979: We are getting into Robert Ludlum, Arthur Hailey, Stephen Kind, John Le Carre (NF: Steve Martin, Henry Kissinger, Lauren Bacall)
1989: Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth), Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, Salman Rushdie,
(NF The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan)
1999: John Grisham, Michael Crichton, Maeve Binchy, (NF Guinness World Records)
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