Readers of Private Eye regularly get to read about what the magazine calls "log rolling". It turns out in a lot of christmas book lists - especially lists that

Readers of Private Eye regularly get to read about what the magazine calls "log rolling". It turns out in a lot of christmas book lists - especially lists that solicit book recommendations from famous writers and journalists - are absolutely crammed with recommendations for their friends' books, their co-workers' books, their boss's wife's books, books by authors they share a literary agent or publisher with, and so on.