The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt has retaken the top place this week. To avoid repeating the excellent review it has already received in Le News, it is worth commenting instead on the welcome arrival into the top ten of A Delicate Truth, a spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2011, the book flashes back to a 2008 joint American-British covert anti-jihadist mission on the Rock of Gibraltar and its consequences.
Le Carré has described this as his most autobiographical work in years. The author, a former MI5 and MI6 officer, told The Daily Telegraph that he has based two of the book’s characters on himself.
Le Carré is truly on form with his latest work and his authentic insights into the harsh realities of espionage are thoroughly compelling.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
For the second time since June, top of the list is Inferno, a mystery thriller from Dan “de Vinci Code” Brown, and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series. Set mainly in Florence, the plot is as twisted as any dreamed up by that lovely city’s renaissance politician, Niccolò Machiavelli. The book was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first eleven weeks of its release in 2013.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Top of this week’s list is The Goldfinch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning third novel from Donna Tartt, her first new book in 11 years. The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Award-winning American author, John Green, has done it again. Considered his most ambitious novel yet, it explores the humorous, thrilling but tragic experience of being alive – and in love. Hazel has just earned herself a few extra years with a tumour-shrinking medical miracle. But a striking plot shift emerges in the form of Augustus Waters, who appears at a Cancer Kid Support Group. This results in an unexpected re-write of Hazel’s story
Infringing Neutrality: The RAF in Switzerland (1940–45)
This 255-page book by Lake Geneva-based author Roger Anthone is more geared to military or history buffs, and makes a fascinating read for those intrigued by the role of Allied forces in Switzerland during World War II. As a neutral country, Switzerland was obliged to intern all Allied and Axis personnel, regardless of nationality, who […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
This week’s top seller is Hard Choices by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The book chronicles her four year stint as US Secretary of State in President Obama’s administration. Reviews to date are shamefully polemical and appear to be drawn solely along party political lines rather than on the merits or weaknesses of Mrs Clinton’s narrative.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Top of the list is Inferno, a mystery thriller from Dan “de Vinci Code” Brown, and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series. Set mainly in Florence, the plot is as twisted as any dreamed up by that lovely city’s renaissance politician, Niccolò Machiavelli. The book was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first eleven weeks of its release in 2013.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Top 10 best selling books of the week
Cannes Film Fest 2014 – Sophia Loren at 79 and who should have won
Every morning at the festival, those in the know (journalists, market people or the wily groupie) can walk into any of the big hotels on the Croisette and pick up free daily glossies that catalogue all the news and photos of the latest happenings at Cannes. They are an indispensable running history of the whole […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Top 10 best selling books of the week
