Clive Cawley, London I'm often left agog at critics/authors choices for Books Of The Year; they seem to have an alarming tendency to go for critically acclaimed, rather artsy books above brilliant, readable stories.
A brilliant, readable theoretical explanation of how market forces in a capitalist economy generate innovation which in turn produces economic growth – and why other economic systems fail to do as well .Reinventing the Bazaar: a Natural History of Markets", by John McMillan.
Here are some recent nonacademic responses to the historians' recent work: Maria Rosa Menocal, "The Ornament of the World" (2002) -- a brilliant, highly readable account of culture in Muslim Spain.
These are minor lapses in a memorable, readable, brilliant book on an important subject.
In their brilliant and highly readable "Interpretive Essay" Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being.
The reviewers have fallen over themselves to praise Nixonland, calling it the best book written about the 1960s, brilliant and fun, compulsively readable, hypercaffeinated, stunning, fluently written and carefully researched, terrific, dazzling, compelling, powerful, epic, gifted, grand, riveting, remarkable, and a hell of a book.
No one can understand Nigeria today without some knowledge of those events, and John de St Jorre – a British journalist who covered the war for the Observer – wrote a brilliant account soon afterwards: a readable and scrupulously fair history of a conflict that aroused great passions across Africa and in Britain.
The first, My Brilliant Friend ( Editions £11.99), was hugely readable and absorbing.
William H. Gass, for example, came out with Finding a Form, a collection of interesting and readable essays, including the brilliant "A Failing Grade for the Present Tense".
If Porchetta is a spare and brilliant short story, Porsena is a fantastically readable novel.
Dark, edgy and extremely readable, Sharp Objects is a brilliant debut.
