Books of the Year

[Dave Monroe]

Books of the Year
Barry Humphries, Richard Eyre, PD James, Sadie Jones, Antony Beevor,
Marina Lewycka, Sue Perkins, James Naughtie and others choose their
favourite reading of 2009

Published: 6:00AM GMT 06 Dec 2009

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Mark Sanderson

Thomas Pynchon is on great form in Inherent Vice (Jonathan Cape), a
phantasmagorical, typically paranoid, take on the private eye genre.
More hare-brained than hard-boiled, it plays a game of cherchez la
femme among Californian surfers as the idealism of the 1960s gives way
to the cynical 1970s. Ed O’Loughlin’s impressive debut, Not Untrue &
Not Unkind (Penguin), is an African entertainment worthy of Graham
Greene.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6710158/Books-of-the-Year.html