Christmas Best Sellers
December 1, 2009
Now that December has arrived I think it’s about the right time to start talking about Christmas and the books of Christmas. Robert McCrum has already picked out a potential best seller in Dear Granny Smith: A Letter from Your Postman. Written by Roy Mayall (the name still makes me smile) the book is short and cheap and, at least according to McCrum, a nostalgic look back at times past that is lovingly written and as such “looks uncommonly like the British Christmas book of 2009.“
As a people we love to look back on the recent past with rose-tinted spectacles while bemoaning the horror of British life today. Soooo it looks as though a short, easily readable look at the Royal Mail, a GBI* that’s approaching total collapse, would be just the ticket.
The book (or at least McCrum’s review of the book) has already been mentioned in the Huffinton Post so it looks as though the snowball of sales may begin to pick up pace. Personally I think I’ll only read it if someone can lend me a copy, however if I do end up buying a copy of Dear Granny Smith I think I’ll nip down the local bookshop to get it. Order it over the internet and it might never arrive.
* Genuine British Institution
