When its life was centred on books, Baghdad was, my friend, a beacon in the worlds of astronomy, medicine, mathematics and philosophy.
Each episode seems to be about the hipster literati of New York and their neuroses, which centre on book launches, Amazon rankings and sexual mishaps.
Garner's third book centred on a controversial case, depicting the intricate twists and turns of the trial with ease.
Ian Kershaw is one of the world's most distinguished and prolific historians of Germany, and his new history of Europe in the era of the two world wars is a very Germany-centred book.
In a recent issue of Prospect magazine, Richard Jenkyns, professor of the classical tradition at Oxford University, called Alice in Wonderland "probably the most purely child-centred book ever written" and said that its only purpose "is to give pleasure".
Eventually this interest came to shape her approach to biography, and her books centred increasingly on the psychological development and motivation of her subjects.
The books centred on the lives of identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, who live in the fictional town of Sweet Valley, California, and attend the local high school.
First published in Great Britain in 1998, it sold slowly at first, and it did not appear in the United States until 2002, after McCall Smith had already published two more books centred on Mma Ramotswe (Mma being an honorific).
· After Daniel Philippe Mason's The Piano Tuner emerged as the first big book of the fair, the final flurry centred on a Tasmanian book about fish.
If you enjoyed reading books such as Of Mice and Men, which is hugely centred on dreams, this book could be a perfect fit for you!
Still, with each of Pierpont's chapters centred on a certain book, pure fun salaciousness just isn't feasible.
