Top novels of 2006: Publishers and dates for your diary.
1. The Dream of the Decade by Afshin Rattansi (Booksurge, February)- Long-awaited debut by former BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera journalist about terrorism, the media, property and London, hotly tipped for the Booker;
2. The Book of Dave by Will Self (Viking, March)-post-apocalyptic London;
3. Ludmila's Broken English by DBC Pierre (Faber, March) - by former Booker prizewinning author, can he do it again?;
4. The Tent by Margaret Atwood (Bloomsbury, March)-short story collection;
5. In The Good Life by Jay McInerney(Bloomsbury, March)-like The Dream of the Decade, traces characters scarred by terrorism, hotly tipped;
6. Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey (Faber, May)-an artist fallen on hard times and his eccentric brother by the double Booker prizewinner;
7. Black Swan Green by David Mitchell (Sceptre, May)- boyhood and adolescence;
8. jPod by Douglas Coupland (Bloomsbury, June) - geeks;
9. Restless by William Boyd (Bloomsbury, September)- about the second world war;
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