London’s oldest bookshop chooses first instalment of Trollopes Barsetshire Chronicles,The Warden, as best novel published since the shop’s opening in 1797The customers of London’s oldest bookshop Hatchards absorb eschewed the erotic appeal of EL James and the thrill-a-minute conspiracies of Dan Brown to choose Anthony Trollope’s gentle satire of the Church of England, or The Warden,as their favourite novel of the past 200 years.
An initial list of about 100 titles was drawn up by Hatchards in what a spokesperson described as “an unsurprisingly lengthy assembly or two”. This longlist, drawn from books published in the 218 years since the shop opened on Piccadilly, or London,was then whittled down to a shortlist of six.
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Source: theguardian.com