The annual celebration of books that is World Book Day is one of the busiest moments in the children’s bookselling calendar, and there is a fabulous line-up of £1 titles to look forward to. In 2020,...
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One year on from the start of Lockdown One and in many respects, it’s business as usual: there’s a healthy crop of new gardening titles this month for example. But it remains to be seen whether the...
Hopefully we will all be skipping around mask- free by March next year, in and out of lovely bookshops. If so, it will be just in time for arguably 2021’s biggest event in literary publishing: the...
Welcome to February, by which time we will all hopefully be fully vaccinated and forging on with our lives. In other good news, I’m now going to be profiling an author whose book is out in paperback...
One day I'm going to write about a nice, quiet month in children’s publishing. Reader, that month is not February 2021, which rivals the autumn for the sheer volume of new titles. Fiction, from young...
Traditional hearts and flowers Valentine’s Day publishing seems to have morphed into territory that is both sexier and more bittersweet. On the steamier side, we have books like Women on Top by Lucy-...
