Booksellers, brace yourselves. I’ve written at length about the increase in new titles over the past two years, but September is far and away my biggest preview ever. It is slightly inflated by a...
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"We all desperately need a good laugh". This seems to have been the preoccupation of publishers acquiring for autumn 2021, and this month’s array of memoirs by comedians—including Mo Gilligan, Josh...
Contrary to my declaration last month—that August was the new September—I can now say that September is still September, e.g. blooming massive. Two of the biggest names in fiction are out this month...
August is big, this year, but not huge... could the deluge of delayed titles be easing up a little? There are, however, some heavy hitters out in the crime and thriller genre. British holiday...
My August Book of the Month is Femi Fadugba’s The Upper World , an exceptional YA début and the latest in a very strong line-up of new talent to hit Children’s and YA publishing in 2021. Choosing...
At lunch with three firends the other day (my, how glorious it was to see them IRL, even shrouded in coats and scarves) and reflecting on the past months of pandemic, one of our number said glumly...
