As I write this on an unseasonably cold and wet April morning the promise of summer feels far away but July’s submissions are positively summery. My book of the month is Catherine Doyle’s middle-...
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Poetry submissions for this preview are usually few in number so I’m delighted this month to be featuring a higher number of titles than usual. From Instapoet Carly Cook and famous names Ruth Padel...
The snow may have only just melted but publishers have already got their sights set on paperbacks for the summer.
As the daffodils and blossom start to appear in the real world, it’s starting to feel a little like summer in paperback preview land: commercial fiction and crime and thriller are booming categories...
June is a terrifically busy month for picture books; I waded through piles to narrow it down to the 30 or so here. Paperbacks from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet,...
A recent—and in my opinion welcome—trend in non-fiction, that is also proving to have a particular power to capture the imagination of the reading public is for books that illuminate the daily...
