Just had to pause listening to London Falling from sheer stress at the way PRK pronounces “Peugeot”

I voted for you! And I choose to believe that by the book award organisers capping the decade here, they are enacting a magical rite that ensures the last ten cursed years of political and economic upheaval will end and we’ll finally get onto the good timeline.

Yes, would’ve loved to hear more about how you made BV! (Also, I just realised you are the same Will Maclean whose book I read recently!)

Thankfully there’s the Boy and the Heron, though the heron in that is sort of also not a heron

View from the vineyard:

Ooh north Devon? Instow across the estuary is v v lovely

…but did the agent deserve it?

One thing that’s definitely changed: there are now a lot of authors. And we probably publish 4x as much as back in the 80s

Reading about Booker judging in the 70s-80s. I often think there’s a savagery to a lot of online discourse but publishing was quite a rough and tumble world in 1983 (read to the end)

Thanks!

A drama I produced was broadcast on R4, and another I cast has been shortlisted for Best Ensemble at the Speakies! 🎧🎉

The show is of course, Bear Hunt…

Did not expect a Michael Rosen picture book to be quoted at a climactic moment in Goalhanger’s new geopolitical thriller, but it’s used very effectively!

Next up on BBC Radio 4! 🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏼‍♂️Premiers Tuesday 16 September at 14.15 A real-time comedy drama, recorded on the trot, and inspired by a true story. Jogging is good for you. But is it supposed to be this painful? Gareth’s son Joe is feeling down and clamming up. And now he’s refusing to go to school.

I just so happen to have stopped at Kensington Olympia when you posted this. Home of the crazy big bids!

Yes sometimes we’d ask the author to write a draft of the back cover copy. I would have some kind of sales copy from early on after acquisition that I often adapted for covers too