PW scanned the lists, talked with a number of booksellers and uncovered a few themes.
Summer is an active time.
She wraps the story around one of the embassy's guests, a world-famous opera singer who refuses to be released by her hostages, and remains behind to entertain her guests. Slammerkin is an 18th-century term for a loose dress and a loose woman. The novel is based on a true incident, where a teenage girl killed her mistress for her red ribbon. Frank, the political editor of the New Yorker , penned a faux-memoir by a newspaper columnist of ill repute that will raise a few eyebrows with its thinly veiled Washington references. While some readers want to escape into exotic places and epochs, the success of the Bridget Jones kind of book indicates that others just want to laugh at the present state of things.