December is the new January. Well before you’ve popped the cork on that New Year’s Eve bottle of champagne and pigged the rest of the Quality Street, bookshop shelves will already be full of books...
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Everything changes but December remains the quiestest month in the publishing calendar, although I trust your tills will be ringing right up to 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Crime dominates this month...
If we are in the business of spotting new trends in publishing, then this month throws up the nichest of new niches: serial killers who are prone to advertising their work by leaving a playing card...
Following two of the biggest months I can remember, November has a more modest outlook, though not without star turns. There’s a new Wimpy Kid from blockbuster author Jeff Kinney, and a new David...
November is still probably my favourite month in the publishing calendar: it always seems to bring some particular gems, held over until the high concentration jostling and pressure of Super Thursday...
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...
