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June 2020 New Titles: Non-Fiction Previews

What with the storms, and the floods, and the coronavirus, we urgently need some reasons to be cheerful. Happily June’s publishing provides a healthy dose of positivity. When I interviewed Rutger...

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Alison Flood

May 2020: Paperback Preview Previews

Happy May! Lots of books are aimed at the Father’s Day market this month, whether it’s John Bishop’s guide to growing old, or the discovery of a previously unpublished thriller by Desmond Bagley...

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Fiona Noble

May 2020 New Titles: Children's Previews

I’ve seen a noticeable rise in the number of submissions for spring titles, and May is no exception. This month I have included 140 titles—far from everything I received—making it the biggest month...

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Caroline Sanderson

May 2020 New Titles: Non-Fiction May Previews

There is much to commemorate this month, with the 75th anniversary of VE Day, the forthcoming 80th anniversaries of Dunkirk and the Battle of Britain and, goodness, the 500th anniversary of the Field...

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Alice O'Keeffe

May 2020 New Titles: Fiction Previews

I have been trend-spotting this month, not as easy in fiction as it is in non-fiction, but I’ve found a few. In historical fiction, the influence of Jane Austen continues (see also Gill Hornby’s Miss...

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Alison Flood

April 2020 Paperback Previews

I emerge from pulling together April’s paperback preview a shattered and broken woman, drowning under AIs and paperbacks, claims of “breakthrough” and “major” and “ground-breaking” flashing before my...

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