The rise of the internet and the mp3 has had a negative impact on music sales in traditional record shops over the last decade. The brick and mortar book trade has also faced competition from supermarkets and charity shops as well as internet sites like Amazon and eBay. In technological terms, hand-held reading devices have been introduced but these have failed to take off due to readers’ preference for the touch and feel of paper in their hands while reading. Personally, I only ever read books in the old-fashioned way and I prefer to do my browsing in bookstores rather than online. Without further ado, here are ten of my favourite fiction and non-fiction titles from the last ten years
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