INTO THE LISTS British books used to ride high in the us bestseller lists, but not any more, says John Sutherland

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: May 28, 2006| Author: John Sutherland | Copyright information

The New York Times fiction bestseller lists tend to make sorry reading for British eyes nowadays. Among the 30 titles listed on May 14, for example, there was just one from our side of the Atlantic (Alexander McCall Smith's delightful Blue Shoes & Happiness).

British novels, such as Smith's, or Ian McEwan's Saturday, make occasional blips in the American weekly and monthly charts. But in the annual roundups it has, since the 1990s, been a virtual whitewash as regards adult fiction (in...

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