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October 2017 New titles: Non-fiction Previews

When I first began compiling this feature (when many of you were still in short trousers), it could best be described as a glorified listing. Over the years, however, it has evolved into a much more...

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Alice O'Keeffe

October 2017 New titles: Fiction Previews

Warning: I’m slightly concerned about the quantity of superlatives in this preview, but with new books from so many extraordinary writers I found it difficult to avoid them. For sheer reading...

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Alison Flood

September 2017 Paperback Previews

I‘ve rarely seen a book jacket that pleases me quite as much as Pan's new edition of Peter Benchley's Jaws . Part of Pan's 70th anniversary celebrations, it's simple, striking and clever enough to...

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Fiona Noble

September 2017 Children's Previews

So to the busiest month of the year, and the biggest preview I’ve ever written. The big guns are out this month and next, led here by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s The Ugly Five , the new...

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Caroline Sanderson

September 2017 New titles: Non-fiction Previews

It’s September, and it’s bumper. Despite the volume of titles however, the standout trends for this autumn are not hard to spot. there are further titles on lagom - the Nordic notion of balance...

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Alice O'Keeffe

September 2017 New Titles: Fiction Previews

Q4 begins, and out come the big guns. This month the Top Sellers section reads like a who’s who of brand authors, those who are pretty much guaranteed to shift over 50,000 copies in hardback. Reading...

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