Other contributors to the collection included Ruth Rendell
, Maeve Binchy
, and Richard Branson
. Several companies gave their services without payment for the production of these books, aimed at beginning readers or hesitant readers.
Trollope, Joanna. The Book Boy. Bloomsbury, 2006.
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December 2001: Women writers for the first time outnumbered...
Women writers item
December 2001
Women writers for the first time outnumbered men in the Guardian newspaper's annual listing of the fastest-selling paperbacks in Britain.
Gibbons, Fiachra. “Women lead the way in ’hottest’ books list”. The Guardian, 29 Dec. 2001, p. 5.
