The rise of the fall

While half of the publishing industry has taken advantage of the brief August lull to spend a fortnight in Devon reading Elena Ferrante, the reality—as many a hard-pressed publicist can testify—is that the autumn rush is almost upon us. In under a fortnight, Jamie Oliver’s Everyday Super Food (Michael Joseph) and Quercus’ new Millennium novel The Girl in the Spider’s Web will hit the shelves, and the starting gun on the race to Christmas will have been well and truly fired. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2015-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Five goes chart-topping: Jamie Oliver is number one

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Searle speaks about demise of Freight Books

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