King Charles III<\/a> issued a statement suggesting the \u201cpain of fraternal grief\u201d had clouded his memory.<\/p>\nThe book paints a particularly unflattering portrait of the king, who Spencer claims was \u201cgiddily elated\u201d after Diana died in a car crash in August 1997.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking back now, I suspect the prince\u2019s first reaction must have been to think more of how this event might free him to marry the woman he loved, rather than appreciating the loss of one he did not,\u201d Spencer writes.<\/p>\n
Then, of course, there\u2019s Spencer\u2019s contention that in a heated phone call before Diana\u2019s funeral, Charles told him, \u201cRest assured, we\u2019ll forget her soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether or not Charles actually said it, history has proven the sentiment spectacularly wrong. Now, with this book, a rumoured documentary from Prince Harry, and the 30th anniversary of her death next year, we\u2019ll be remembering her for some time to come.<\/p>\n
Another British author is on the lists, albeit one who\u2019s been dead for 50 years.<\/p>\n
Writing in the Guardian, Foley said she only understood the genius of the character when she reread the original books as an adult.<\/p>\n
She said she \u201ccame to appreciate how clever and radical Christie had been in making an elderly spinster her master sleuth … She had taken one of the \u2018left behind\u2019 women\u00a0\u2014 a figure typically both pitied and scorned by society\u00a0\u2014 and shown her running rings around the other characters, using her invisibility as a kind of superpower.\u201d<\/p>\n
A couple of Canadians join the non-fiction lists with memoirs.<\/p>\n
1. Exit Story, Emily St. John Mandel, Harper Avenue<\/p>\n
2. Getting Away with Murder, Shari Lapena, Doubleday Canada<\/p>\n
3. The Birthing Tree, Amanda Peters, Harper Perennial<\/p>\n
4. Not a Word, Linwood Barclay, William Morror<\/p>\n
5. Something about September, Julia McKay, Viking<\/p>\n
6. Tethered, Elayne R. Gallea, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
7. The Black Wolf, Louise Penny, Minotaur<\/p>\n
8. The Deal, Elle Kennedy, Bloom<\/p>\n
9. City of Gods and Monsters, Kayla Edwards, Scarlett<\/p>\n
10. Eliza Sunshine, Michelle Good, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
1. End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Knopf Canada<\/p>\n
2. Playing the Changes, Colin James, Random House Canada<\/p>\n
3. Why Not You, Jennifer Botterill, Kristina Rutherford, Viking<\/p>\n
4. The Inbetween Leader, Jody Wilson-Raybould, Roshan Danesh, Greystone<\/p>\n
5. Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World, ed. Bob Rae, James Lorimer & Company<\/p>\n
6. The Wealthy Barber, David Chilton, Financial Awareness<\/p>\n
7. Values, Mark Carney, Signal<\/p>\n
8. Tempted, Rick Campanelli, John Meyer, Collins<\/p>\n
9. Housing Inc., Leilani Farha, House of Anansi<\/p>\n
10. Beyond the Trees, Adam Shoalts, Penguin Canada<\/p>\n
1. Threshing Day, Rebecca Yarros, Entangled (1)*<\/p>\n
2. Hollywood, Ending, John Green, Dutton (1)<\/p>\n
3. The Calamity Club, Kathryn Stockett, Doubleday Canada (20)<\/p>\n
4. Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke, Knopf Canada (22)<\/p>\n
5. Theo of Golden, Allen Levi, Simon & Schuster (30)<\/p>\n
6. Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel, Lucy Foley, Agatha Christie, William Morrow (1)<\/p>\n
7. Exit Party, Emily St. John Mandel, Harper Avenue (2)<\/p>\n
8. Taipei Story, R.F. Kuang, William Morrow (2)<\/p>\n
9. The Knave and the Moon, Rachel Gillig, Orbit (4)<\/p>\n
10. The Pirate Queen, Ariel Lawhon, Doubleday (2)<\/p>\n
1. Swan Song, Charles Spencer, Penguin (1)<\/p>\n
2. End Times Fascism, Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Knopf Canada (3)<\/p>\n
3. Redwood, Ben Macintyre, Signal (2)<\/p>\n
4. Actually, Nevermind, Taylor Tomlinson, Gallery (1)<\/p>\n
5. Playing the Changes, Colin James, Random House Canada (1)<\/p>\n
6. Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain, Bloomsbury (9)<\/p>\n
7. True North, Paul Theroux, Mariner (1)<\/p>\n
8. London Falling, Patrick Radden Keefe, Bond Street (24)<\/p>\n
9. Why Not You, Jennifer Botterill, Kristina Rutherford, Viking (1)<\/p>\n
10. Regime Change, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Simon & Schuster (13)<\/p>\n
1. The Mirror of Infinite Endings, Stephanie Garber, Lotusbubble, Flatiron<\/p>\n
2. Baby-Sitters on Board! (Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #1), Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan, Ann M. Martin, Graphix<\/p>\n
3. Little Blue Truck\u2019s Halloween, Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry, Clarion<\/p>\n
4. Cozy Love and Christmas Crime, Anouk Filippini, Djohr Guedra, \u00c9ditions et Diffusions Auzou<\/p>\n
5. Rowley Jefferson\u2019s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2, Jeff Kinney, Amulet<\/p>\n
6. Gruffalo Granny, Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, Macmillan Children\u2019s Books<\/p>\n
7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle, Penguin Young Readers Group<\/p>\n
8. Big Nate: Curse of the Puffy Shorts, Lincoln Peirce, Andrews McMeel<\/p>\n
9. A Very Cherry Christmas, Cynthia Kafka, Jessica Molina, \u00c9ditions et Diffusions Auzou<\/p>\n
10. Fake Skating, Lynn Painter, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers<\/p>\n
1. The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins, Sawyer Robbins, Hay House<\/p>\n
2. The 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene, Joost Elffers, Penguin<\/p>\n
3. The Mountain Is You, Brianna Wiest, Thought Catalog<\/p>\n
4. The Creative Act, Rick Rubin, Penguin<\/p>\n
5. Let\u2019s F*cking Date, Serena Kerrigan, Crown<\/p>\n
6. Making Peace with What I Can\u2019t Control, Lysa TerKeurst, Thomas Nelson<\/p>\n
7. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, Anchor Canada<\/p>\n
8. Man\u2019s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankel, Beacon<\/p>\n
9. Carry Your Heart, Louis Busch, Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n
10. The Untethered Soul, Michael A. Singer, New Harbinger<\/p>\n
The bestseller lists are compiled by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited from information provided by BookNet Canada\u2019s national sales tracking service, BNC SalesData.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here in London, England, where I\u2019m writing this introduction, you can\u2019t pass a bookstore without seeing the face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-915856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}