To think just of books published in Britain during the last twelve months - why wasn't Mary Gentle's Black Opera on that table? Didn't they have it in stock? (And if not, why not?) Or did they just not think of it? Even if it's not her strongest work, it's still good - and, ten years ago, any recently-published Mary Gentle book would have been a strong candidate for inclusion in that kind of promotion.

So far as Jo Walton's Among Others and Cat Valente's Deathless (and for that matter The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...) are concerned, the reasoning would presumably by that, while they are fantasy, they are not epic fantasy. But even so...

Though, while I doubt that I'm going to have time to do any significant blogging in the next few days, if I do write about anyone, it's likely to be about an author most of whose works never received British publication - Paula Volsky (now, I believe, writing as Paula Brandon).