November has always been one of my favourite publishing months: once the hurly burly of Super Thursday has been and gone, there is the subtle late twinkle of some less flashy but still sparkly things...
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Judging by the sales figures alone, short story collections can be seen as the poor relation to the novel. This month has the finest collection (throng? accumulation? cluster?) of literary short...
There is a bit of a change this month to our Top Sellers section: we’ve decided to follow the same convention as we do for our New Titles: Fiction feature, and so will only be including titles with a...
As you would expect in October, it’s another bumper month, and one that showcases the breadth of our children’s and YA publishing. Yes, there are festive winter tales, magical dragons and pooping...
Does Super Thursday fall on 6th October or 20th? Depends which date you think feels more super. The 6th brings memoirs by Alan Carr and Jeremy Paxman, along with Planet Earth II while the 20th...
I filed the main body of this piece long before the results of the EU referendum were known, but in retrospect I’m glad I chose a comic novel for my Book of the Month as I think we can all do with...
