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The season of big books won’t be upon us until the Autumn, so this is the season of most anticipated books, a time where we move through the present but… Read more »
Zeljka Marosevic
Zeljka Marosevic is the managing director of Melville House UK.
Is it over? Abacus buys Jonasson’s 100-Year-Old Man
Back in April, I covered the sad set of events at Hesperus Press. After the independent publisher lost all of its members of staff, with no explanation, it then became… Read more »
Hail & Farewell: Cookery writer and culinary legend Marguerite Patten
The cookery writer and original ‘celebrity chef’ Marguerite Patten has died at the age of 99. Patten rose to fame during World War II when she worked for the Ministry… Read more »
Infighting at the Brontë Society
Infighting at the Brontë Society has caused the author Bonnie Greer to resign from her role as president. Greer quit at the weekend following months of internal disputes between the… Read more »
“The lady’s bottom isn’t pert enough” Jilly Cooper gets toned down
The history of the world is usually told as one of scientific and technological progress, matched by the decline of social propriety and the weakening of morals. We have the… Read more »
Book Hive bookshop’s bright idea
Books and summer usually mix pretty well. Longer nights and balmy days make for reading conditions that are close to ideal. But for Norwich’s outstanding independent bookshop, The Book Hive,… Read more »
Spare Rib liberated online
The iconic radical magazine Spare Rib has been preserved in an online archive by the British Library. From yesterday, all 239 issues of the magazine, which charted the women’s liberation… Read more »
The “unpublished” Larkin poem that wasn’t
Last week it was Shakespeare. This week it’s the turn of a more modern poet, Philip Larkin, to be the subject of a grand but ultimately false discovery. On Monday,… Read more »
Is this Shakespeare’s face?
Shakespeare: remember him? But when you come to think of him, what image floats into your mind’s eye? Perhaps it’s the “Chandos” portrait, which may or may not depict the… Read more »
The Wake is the Book of the Year
Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wake was the surprise winner of the Book of the Year award at the Bookseller Industry Awards on Monday night. The Wake was originally published through the crowd-funding publishing… Read more »