This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of allbestselling books, authors and genres sincethe startof the last century, giving an unique insight intoa hundred years of publishing and readingand taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination."

This essential guide, now available in a fully updated new edition, is the only available study of all bestselling books, authors and genres since the start of the last century, giving an unique insight into a hundred years of publishing and reading and taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.