Hopefully we will all be skipping around mask- free by March next year, in and out of lovely bookshops. If so, it will be just in time for arguably 2021’s biggest event in literary publishing: the...
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Welcome to February, by which time we will all hopefully be fully vaccinated and forging on with our lives. In other good news, I’m now going to be profiling an author whose book is out in paperback...
One day I'm going to write about a nice, quiet month in children’s publishing. Reader, that month is not February 2021, which rivals the autumn for the sheer volume of new titles. Fiction, from young...
Traditional hearts and flowers Valentine’s Day publishing seems to have morphed into territory that is both sexier and more bittersweet. On the steamier side, we have books like Women on Top by Lucy-...
As is traditional for February, with love in the air, there is a fair bit of publishing with Valentine’s Day in mind. Two short story collections to look out for: Who’s Loving You (Trapeze) is an...
George Orwell's work comes out of copyright in January 2021, and so we have a plethora of new publications out this month: four from Vintage, 10 from Oxford University Press, and undoubtedly more to...