Happy New Year! Well, 2021 kicks off with jam-packed publishing schedules and a flurry of big débuts. Amari and the Night Brothers by B B Alston is my Book of the Month: one of the most exciting...
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Happy New Year! Perhaps never did that greeting feel more like a triumph of hope over experience. And yet this is time that we traditionally address with gusto all the things we need to put right:...
Happy New Year! Welcome to January 2021, an epically big month in fiction, with publisher submissions easily exceeding 200 titles. This can partly be accounted for by pandemic-related publication...
December is always the quietest month for the Paperback Preview and it’s no exception this year even with some titles still moving from earlier in the year. But there are a handful of books that will...
My final preview of 2020 is short even by normal December standards, with no new titles from many children’s publishers. The eye of the storm, perhaps, between exceptionally busy autumn and spring...
As we reach the end of another publishing year, it feels as if we have only just begun to unpack all the consequences of Covid-19. In this health and diet book-dominated month, there is plenty of...
