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London Book Fair 2023: Wednesday's Author of the Day, Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves OBE is a British mystery crime writer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black, the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series. She appeared as Author of the Day at the LBF.
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London Book Fair 2023: Literary Tapas: 'The Riveter' Offers a Taste of Spain
After being the Guest of Honor at Frankfurt this past fall, Spain, along with its literatures and cultures, is back in the spotlight this week in London.
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London Book Fair 2023: Q&A: Illustrator of the Fair, Dapo Adeola
Dapo Adeola is a British-Nigerian illustrator. He co-created and illustrated the Waterstones children's book of 2020 Look Up!, which explored space science. Adeola is best known for creating graphics that challenge race and gender stereotypes. He appeared as Illustrator of the London Book Fair in 2023.
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London Book Fair 2023: Brian Murray, the Ukrainian First Lady, and a Shocking Arrest Start the Show
On Day One in London, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray said the publisher may still try to buy Simon & Schuster, Ukrainian first lady Olena Zolenska addressed the fair over video, and the floor was aflutter over the arrest of the foreign rights manager at French publisher Éditions La Fabrique on his way to the show.
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London Book Fair 2023: The 'Ongoing Agony' of Brexit for U.K. Indie Publishers
Not one of the publishers contacted for this report had a single positive thing to say about the impact of Brexit.
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London Book Fair 2023: The Selfies Book Awards Shortlists
The 2023 Selfies Book Awards, set up by BookBrunch in 2018 to recognize great indie publishing, will be announced in Author HQ at 4.45 p.m. GMT today.
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London Book Fair 2023: An Italian Literary Agent in London
Mauro Spagnol, an Italian agent with 18 years of experience, founded Books-Everywhere, a literary agency with the aim to promote European publishers in the international market.
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London Book Fair 2023: AI’ll Be Back
Duncan Calow predicts that as the development of AI increases in capacity, so will laws, regulations, and directives formed as a protective shield against the machine.
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London Book Fair 2023: PEN Presents: Need and Opportunity
When English PEN began consulting with translators, agents, and publishers in 2020, to discuss an intervention supporting sample translations, it became quickly clear that there was both need and opportunity.
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London Book Fair 2023: The Art of the Pause in Audiobooks
Strathmore Studios founder Nicholas Jones believes people will always want the added subtleties of human inflection when it comes to non-academic audiobooks over computers using text-to-speech.
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London Book Fair 2023: New IPA President Sets Out on a Mission of Freedom, Copyright, and Data Protection
Karine Pansa, president of the International Publishers Association, has two key priorities: defending copyright protections and the freedom to publish around the world.
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London Book Fair 2023: Despite Recommended Retail Prices Rise, Books Have Never Been Cheaper
High advances and market forces (Brexit; the rising costs of paper, energy, and manufacturing; the impact of the pandemic) are creating expensive recommended retail prices for books in the U.K.—and yet books have never been cheaper, if you account for inflation.
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London Book Fair 2023: AI Review of AI Says Humans Are Better Critics
Jonathan Segura, co–editorial director at PW, makes a case for human critics over AI.
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London Book Fair 2023: Brian Murray Takes On the Big Issues
The CEO of HarperCollins talks with PW about some of the important issues facing publishing in advance of his opening talk at this year's London Book Fair.
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