Bhutto's new book could be unexpected bestseller

TURBULENT NEIGHBOURHOOD

The New Year may see a bestseller from slain Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto.

HarperCollins, the publisher, today said it had just taken delivery of the manuscript for a new book by former Pakistan premier Bhutto, entitled 'Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West', written prior to her assassination on December 27.

HarperCollins had intended to publish the book later this year but now it is being rushed to get it into print as quickly as possible.

The book, part political treatise and part memoir of the first woman elected prime minister of a Muslim country, could appear on shelves in the US at least as early as next month.