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November 2017 New titles: Fiction Previews

A quieter month in the publishing calendar, November nevertheless has some absolute gems. Richard Flanagan’s First Person (Chatto) is an account of a novice ghostwriter’s painful struggle to get to...

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Alison Flood

October 2017 Paperback Previews

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas this month, with a host of festive commercial fiction due to hit the shelves, whether it’s the likes of romance and baking from Jenny Colgan in Christmas...

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Fiona Noble

October 2017 Children's Previews

Children’s & YA publishing truly takes centre stage in October with some serious event publishing: John Green’s Turtles All the Way Down (10th), Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage (19th) and not...

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Caroline Sanderson

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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