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Buzz for handful of novels at slow-starting fair
It has been a quiet start to this years London Book Fair on
the deal-making front, writes Rachel Deahl with Francis
Hoch. With no single book emerging as the big title of the
fair, and gossip still focused on last weeks reports about
the $65 million advance the Obamas landed from Penguin
Random House, a number of books have been the subject
of more restrained chatter. That many of the books
drawing buzz are novels also bolsters theories some
insiders shared with PW before the fair, that publishers
believe readers want escapism right now, as they look for
relief from the tumultuous political events that have
recently rocked the world.
Among the novels people are talking about at the fair is
The Lido by Libby Page. The book, not yet sold in the US,
was acquired in the UK in an overnight six-figure pre-empt
by Clare Hey at Orion (agent Robert Caskie at Caskie
Mushens). Set in Brixton, it follows the unlikely friendship
that forms between an adrift 26-year-old and an 86-year-
old widow. At press, pre-empts had been closed in
Denmark, Finland, Italy and Sweden.
Julia Phillips Disappearing Earth has been another
highlight: it was acquired in a two-book, six-figure pre-
empt in the UK by Scribners Rowan Cope, and bought in
the US by Knopfs Robin Desser. (Suzanne Gluck at
William Morris Endeavor handled the US sale, while
WMEs Elizabeth Sheinkman handled the UK one.)
Selling in a pre-empt to Emily Bell at MCD/FSG is
another buzzed-about novel: Lydia Kieslings The Golden
State. The book follows a young mother living in the Bay
Area who, frustrated by various aspects of her life, runs off
with her young daughter to a rural part of northern
California (agent Claudia Ballard at William Morris
Endeavor).
Although fiction seems to be the hot ticket, a number of
non-fiction titles have bubbled to the top of conversations.
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One particularly topical work is Calling Bullshit: written
by two academics at the University of Washingtonbiology
professor Carl Bergstrom and assistant professor at the
Information School, Jevin Westthe book grew out of a
class the pair created called Calling Bullshit in the Age of
Big Data. Will Murphy at Random House US signed it
with a six-figure pre-empt (agent Max Brockman).
Obamas for grabs
The sale to Penguin Random House of two Obama books
for $65 million has generated a variety of reactions here at
the London Book Fair, ranging from cries of Its an
abomination to The book business is back!. PRH has
stated it will issue the books where the company has its
own presence, including North America, the UK, Germany,
as well as other English and Spanish language territories.
Other territories are up for grabs. The LBF news was that a
furious auction had taken place in the Netherlands, with
rumours suggesting a deal was struck for the two books
for 3m, regarded as an unusually high figure for such a
small market.There is also believed to have been an
auction in Sweden, and Fayard bought French rights.
Bonnier launches
IglooBooks in North
America
Bonnier is launching its IglooBooks brand to North
America, where it will join the companys four other
imprints operating there, including Little Bee Books, Sizzle
Press, Weldon Owen and recently launched illustrated
books imprint Blue Streak Books. IglooBooks focuses on
value-driven adult and childrens books; the North
American imprint will publish 150 titles in its first year and
will have a dedicated team of editors and designers.
The new company will be led by Jeremy Nurnberg,
formerly of Parragon and Sterling. He will report to Shimul
Tolia, ceo, Bonnier Publishing USA.
IglooBooks was founded in 2003 and acquired by
Bonnier Publishing in 2014. It has published books in 36
languages that are sold in 58 countries, and generates
revenue of $60m a year.
IglooBooks ceo Dan Shepherd said: As our growth
continues globally, it is a natural next step to build a North
American team who will focus 100% on the needs of the
US consumer. We look forward to working with retail
partners to bring the list to market in the coming months
and years.
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Four questions for IPA President Michiel Kolman
Andrew Richard Albanese caught
up with Michiel Kolman, senior
vice president of global academic
relations at Elsevier (and a
photo: Edwin de Kamp
Columbia-educated astrophysicist),
to talk about his upcoming term
leading the International
Publishers Association.
Michiel Kolman
In accepting your two-year term,
you noted that publishers were facing challenging and rapidly
changing times, and you especially cited copyright issues. How
do you and the IPA see the copyright debate at the moment?
I am glad you raised copyright first, as it is a primary pillar of
the IPA. We foresee the conversation continuing about how to
modernise copyright and to adapt it to various exceptions and
limitations. In principle, exceptions are workable. But if they
are overbroad, and if there are exceptions in too many areas,
then the foundation of publishing is undermined and publishers
will no longer be able to invest and innovate. An example where
exceptions have been too far-reaching is in Canada, where the
educational publishing industry has taken a heavy hit.
Politically, the world seems awfully unstable. How is this
influencing the IPAs work?
We do live in a world that seems more politically unstable
than before, and for this reason the IPAs work around
Freedom to Publish is more important than ever. This includes
making interventions when individual publishers are under
threat, for example in Turkey. We have also ramped up our
efforts to promote Freedom to Publish through the IPAs
A murmuration of literary translators
The Starling Bureau, a UK-based collective of literary
translators who are collaborating to extend their network of
contacts with publishers and share best practices, has made
its debut at the London Book Fair. Founding members
include Zo Perry, Roland Glasser, Morgan Giles, Paul
Russell Garrett,and Ruth Clarke, who, between them,
translate from Danish, French, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian,
Portuguese and Spanish.
The idea, said Roland Glasser, whose translation of
Fiston Mwanza Mujilas Tram 83 was shortlisted for the
Man International Booker Prize, is to streamline the
process for publishers and agents who are looking for
translators from a specific language. Translators tend to
work in isolation, so to generate business spend a lot of time
and energy promoting themselves. In this way we hope to
expedite the process of connecting the right people.
Another key function of the Starling Bureau is pitching
titles to publishers. Often translators find themselves acting
as de facto scouts, a role for which they often go unpaid.
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Prix Voltaire, a unique annual award that honours the
bravery of publishers who stand up for Freedom to Publish,
often at great personal risk. In times of instability, people
look increasingly to reliable and trustworthy information
and if they are not looking to publishers, then who?
Last year at the IPA Congress in London, there was some
controversy regarding China and Saudi Arabias
membership in IPAany updates there?
We are a global organisation, and we will always carefully
consider an opportunity to speak on behalf of more publishers
around the world. But as I said in my acceptance speech in
Frankfurt last year, membership in the IPA also comes with
responsibilities. And that means that IPA members must
actively support the key pillars of our organisation,
including the freedom to publish, and copyright protection.
We are very actively engaged with all new membersmost
recently, applications from the national publishers
associations of Iraq, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Morocco
and Senegal were accepted via elections in 2016. And I will
visit China next month, where Ill continue our engagement
with the Publishers Association of China.
What other key issues are on your radar?
Copyright is and will remain a focal point for the IPA, as will
freedom to publish. We have a very active and motivated
chair of the IPA Freedom to Publish committee in Kristenn
Einarsson, from Norway, who has begun exploring some
exciting new ways we can enhance our advocacy in this area. In
this era of fake news and political turmoil, the publishers role
in providing reliable information is more important than ever.
It takes a lot of time and effort to pitch a book properly
each title might well be pitched to half a dozen publishers
(or more), with a number of follow-ups, reminders, nudges
needed, just to get them to look at it properly, let alone
consider publishing it, said Glasser. By acting as a
collective, they hope to accelerate the time to market for
books by honing each others book pitches, promoting
them, and offering support. In effect we will be each
others agents.
The group, which is named after the small bird known
for acrobatic flying in a large flock, or murmuration, is
not the first such collective of translators: Paper Republic,
which promotes the translation of Chinese literature, has
been operating since 2007. The Starling Bureau was itself
inspired by the launch in October 2016 of Cedilla & Co, a
New York-based collective that brought together a half-
dozen translators, including Allison Markin Powelland
Alta Price.
The group can be reached online at www.thestarlingbureau.com.
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David Roche (left) and Neill Denny of BookBrunch flank
three of years Trailblazer Award winners: (from left)
Heather McDaid from 404 Ink; Claire ONeill from Audible;
and Caroline Tatam from CUP.
Rights round up
Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, has signed a
deal for a new novel with Granta (UK) and FSG (US). Max Porter at
Granta signed UK and Australian rights through Caroline Dawnay at
United Agents; Jonathan Galassi and Jenna Johnson bought the novel at
FSG. Rights have also gone to Fergus Barrowman at Victoria University
Press (New Zealand) and Jared Bland at McClelland & Stewart
(Canada). Birnam Wood is billed as a psychological thriller set in a
remote area of New Zealand where ultra-rich foreigners are building
fortress-like homes and stockpiling weapons in preparation for a
coming global catastrophe.
Tamsin English at Yellow Kite (Hachette UK) and Nathaniel Marunas
at Quercus US have bought world English rights at auction in
Norwegian bestseller The Wonder Down Under by medical students
and sex educators Nina Brochmann and Ellen Stkken Dahl. The agent
is Even Rkil. There are rights deals in 20 territories. The book
explains everything you ever wanted to know about the vagina but
didnt dare ask. English added: The Wonder Down Under is a timely
and empowering book that will educate and inspire women to make
informed choices about their sexual health. Publication will be in
spring 2018.
Carolyn Thorne at Harper Thorsons (HarperNonFiction) has bought
world rights in The Doctors Kitchen, a debut cookbook by NHS GP Dr
Rupy Aujla. Harper has rights through Becca Barr at Becca Barr
Management and Carly Cook, agent and consultant.
Dr Rupy, who trained at Imperial College London, will demonstrate
how to cook with specific ingredients to create disease-preventing
recipes. Thorne said: Dr Rupy is a committed NHS GP who is giving
us food solutions to enhance our health and he does this from an
informed and impassioned position of knowledge with a whole selection
of flavoursome recipes thrown in. Publication will be in January 2018.
Bluebird UK and William Morrow US are to publish The M Word:
Meditation for Busy Minds by Emily Fletcher. Carole Tonkinson at
Bluebird pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights (exc Canada) from
Kate McLennan at Abner Stein, on behalf of Cassie Hanjian at Waxman
Leavell. The M Word (2019 in the UK) is billed as destigmatising
meditation for the average person. Tonkinson said: The M Word is an
entertaining window into meditation with the potential to become the
go-to-guide for years to come. Fletcher is the founder of Ziva
Meditation and has worked with corporations including Google and
Barclays Bank.
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Fee ruling threatens Germ an
The last two years have been
relatively stable for German
The verdict
publishers, writes Milan has hit
Gagnon, But in 2017, a final
court ruling in a long-running
Germanys
case of reprint fees could have smallest
a major impact on the
industry, possibly putting
publishers
the future of some smaller the hardest.
and independent publishers
in jeopardy.
From 1958 until 2015, the VG Wort licensing agency
collected legally mandated reprint fees for things like
library loans, use in classroom readers, and the like. In
recent years, VG Wort administered roughly 120 million
annually from libraries, copy shops, even makers of USB
sticks that stored portions of works published as books or
in magazines, newspapers, or journals. The problem is, for
years VG Wort incorrectly split the payments between
authors and publishers. And after years of legal wrangling,
the Federal Court of Justice (BGH), Germanys highest
court, ruled last April that authors are entitled to 100% of
the monies collected, and ordered publishers to repay
roughly 100 million to authors.
The ruling is a heavy blow for the German book sector,
German Publishers & Booksellers Association (Brsenverein)
managing director Alexander Skipis says. As a result, the
quality and diversity that the German book market is
currently reputed for is massively threatened, he adds.
One mans fight
The legal drama began in 2012, when Martin Vogel, an
author and retired patent judge, took VG Wort, and by
extension the industry, to the Munich regional court. A
copyright scholar in his own right (in the 1970s Vogel wrote
his doctoral dissertation on German publishing and copyright
law from 1450the first run of the Gutenberg pressto 1850),
Vogel argued that publishers never had any grounds to collect
income from reprint fees. Theyd just asserted it, Vogel says.
And the practice went unchallenged for so long, Vogel says,
because authors are dependent on publishers and many
could not risk such a fight. For me, however, as an
independent judge, Vogel says, it was possible.
The first court to hear the case ordered a halt to VG
Worts disbursements to publishers until the matter was
fully settled. The next year, an appeals court also ruled in
Vogels favour, but allowed the disbursements to continue
as VG Wort litigated the case. Finally, the BGH weighed in
for Vogel, and ordered the publishers to return fees paid to
them from 20122015.
Observers say the verdict has hit Germanys smallest
publishers the hardest. Presses with meansand foresight
squirreled away the VG Wort disbursements while awaiting
a final decision. Bigger publishers, meanwhile, have the cash
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rm an publishers
to pay out. However, the Brsenverein estimates that some
presses will pay out sums equivalent to 20-200% of their
annual profits, which some presses simply cannot manage.
There are many smaller publishers in Germany who
produce excellent books, and it would be a real shame if
they were no longer on the market, says Torsten Kutschke,
a lawyer and the publishing director of the legal division of
the Deutscher Fachverlag media group. We Are Quarto
One such publisher is Ch. Links, East Berlins first private
press after the Wall fell in 1989, and now an award-
winning house focused on contemporary history. Edda
Fensch, who handles media for the publisher, says Ch.
Links was ordered to return 51,000 to authorsa hefty
sum mitigated in the nick of time by a 26,000 independent
publishing excellence award from the Kurt Wolff
foundation. With that, we only had to muster half the
sum all at once, Fensch writes in an email. Publishers that
dont have these means are now at risk of bankruptcy.

The next steps

Given the sudden (although foreseeable) consequences of
the ruling, a number of German publishers took an
extraordinary step: they sent out letters asking authors to
voluntarily forgo the funds awarded to them. That appeal
was quickly derided by many writers, including Vogel, as
beggar letters, a term publishers bristle at. They are not
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German publishers also got some relief from the Brsenverein
and Frankfurt Book Fair, which last month announced a
90,000 hardship fund. Supported by some of the giants in
the publishing sector, the funds are aimed at keeping small #wearebooks #wearepeople #wearequarto
presses going at a time when many face insolvency. quartoknows.com
Meanwhile, more assistance is in the works from
Germanys government, which last year created a
temporary regulation to restore reprint royalties to their
old levels: 50/50 for non-fiction and 70/30 (in authors
favour) for fiction. That measure is designed to hold until a
permanent EU law can enshrine authors and publishers
shares of the fees. Unfortunately, the legislative process at
the European level is a very lengthy one, says the
Brsenvereins Skipis. At the moment, our goal is to
accelerate the legal regulation at the EU level and then to
implement it within the year.
Theres currently no date set for tackling the legislation
in Brussels. Nor is there a precise tally of how many
publishers have asked authors for help, or how many
authors have agreed and how much theyre willing to give
up. The only certainty for German publishers is that it will
be a while before things return to normal, and many
smaller, independent German publishers are facing a well
of red ink in 2017. 
Milan Gagnon is a Cologne-based journalist and editor, and a Publishers Lindpendance crative
Weekly contributor.
 London show daily
US: Legal focus turns from litigation
Aside from one new copyright suitwith a
familiar defendantmajor litigation in the US
Even if the
seems to be on the decline. Andrew Richard publishers prevail,
Albanese looks at the high profile legal cases
in the US that are worth watching.
its unlikely to
justify a decade
Cambridge University Press vs. Patton
The most high-profile case remaining, after
of costly litigation
some nine years of litigation, this closely in an academic
watched copyright case is right back where it
was in 2012before a US Court of Appeals.
market that is
And barring an unexpected settlement, it still rapidly evolving.
appears far from resolution.
The suit involves three academic publishers
(Cambridge University Press, Oxford University
Press and SAGE) who in 2008 sued administrators at
Georgia State University (GSU) for allegedly encouraging
faculty to use illegally digitized course readings (known as
e-reserves) as a no-cost alternative to traditionally licensed
course readings. After years of legal manoeuvring, federal
judge Orinda Evans handed the publishers a stinging defeat
in 2012, holding that GSUs digitized excerpts were
protected by fair use. Two years later, the case was sent
back to Evans with instructions to re-balance her final fair
use analysis. In her remand decision issued last spring,
Evans again found that GSUs e-reserve programme was
protected by fair use, and once again ordered the publishers
to pay GSUs legal fees and costs. GSU is seeking more than
$3.3 million.
The case has now been briefed and the battle lines for the
second appeal are largely familiar: basically, the publishers
argue that Evans completely botched the case. But perhaps
the most interesting development is the filing of Amicus
briefs by duelling author groups: The Authors Guild in
support of the publishers and the fledgling Authors
Alliance in support of GSU.
Recently retired AAP president Tom Allen had called the
GSU litigation an important test case for fair use in the
digital age. But the fact is, even if the publishers ultimately
prevail, its unlikely to justify a decade of costly litigation in
an academic market that is rapidly evolving. As Cornell Law
professor James Grimmelmann has observed, for publishers
winning slowly is just about as bad as losing quickly.
Gitman vs. Pearson Education Inc
This one appears to be over. On 22nd February, a federal
judge dismissed the case after the parties filed notice of a
settlement. The terms have not been made public.
First filed in October 2014, by two plaintiff authors
(Lawrence J Gitman and Michael D Joehnk), the suit
alleged that Pearson has been systematically shortchanging
textbook authors on the royalties they are owed. They
sought to turn the case into a class action, which could
have had far-reaching implicationsin a filing, Pearson
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attorneys once acknowledged that the
potential class could be tens of thousands
of authors.
In filings, the authors claimed that an
audit showed that one of their textbooks
rose 140% in price from 2000 to 2011
(from $108 a copy to $260), yet, due to a
range of accounting and sales practices, their
royalties over the same period remained
stagnant. Pearson attorneys argued that the
company acted squarely within the bounds
of its contracts with the plaintiffs. The
settlement must be approved by the court.
Penguin Random House et al vs. Frederik
Colting et al
Last month, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
joined with the estates of Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote,
Jack Kerouac and Arthur C Clarke to file suit in New York
against Frederik Colting, Melissa Medina and their publishing
firm, Moppet Books, charging copyright infringement. The
suit alleges that Moppet Books KinderGuides, a line of
illustrated childrens adaptations that feature versions of The
Old Man and the Sea, Breakfast at Tiffanys, On the Road and
2001: A Space Odyssey, are a wilful copyright infringement
of four acclaimed copyrighted classic novels.
The suit charges that the KinderGuides are a transparent
attempt to recast their unauthorized derivatives as study
guides intended for the elementary school set.
If the name Colting sounds familiar, it is because he was also
involved in a 2011 suit filed by the JD Salinger estate for writing
and publishing what was billed as an unauthorized sequel to The
Catcher in the Ryea point the publishers make in their suit.
[Colting] was enjoined by this Court from publishing that book
and his cry of fair usewhich he will no doubt raise yet again
was soundly rejected, the publisher complaint states. Now
operating under the name Moppet Books, Colting once again
proceeds to brazenly infringe the rights of different authors.
Notably, however, injunction against Colting was vacated on
appeal, and that case was later settled.
The plaintiff publishers have asked the court to permanently
enjoin Moppet Books from disseminating the KinderGuides in
the US, and to recall any copies in circulation and destroy them,
as well as asking for damages and attorneys fees.
Colting said he was surprised by the suit. We feel that we
are protected by law to provide commentary upon these classic
novels, just like our fellow educational publishers, he told
Publishers Weekly. It is hard, as a small publisher, not to feel
as if we are bullied by these big publishers, Colting said. But
we will fight this and defend our right to do KinderGuides.
The case is in its very early stagesand it is unclear how long
Colting and his company will be able to keep up the fight
against the deep pockets of the plaintiffs. His first time around,
in the Salinger case, he was represented pro bono. 
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Author of the Day: Michael Morpurgo
Nicolette Jones looks at the career of a voice for children
Michael Morpurgo is one of a handful of British
childrens writers who can be guaranteed to fill
any large hall. He has a rare talent for connecting
with his audience. He is funny, and speaks
plainly but eloquently and with heart and
conviction, addressing big ethical issues and
ideas in a way that immediately moves his
listeners. He also delights children by being
rude to them: Its a story about an awful boy,
just like that one there.
The same qualities of
accessibility, emotion, underlying Michael Morpurgo
morality and humour appear in
Morpurgos books. He is particularly celebrated (such as Private Peaceful) that might well qualify as crossover
now as the author of a story told from the
perspective of a horse: it was turned into the
National Theatres ongoing success War Horse. (It transferred
to the West End and Broadway, is currently touring the UK,
and was adapted on film by Steven Spielberg.) But Morpurgo
has written more than 110 books since 1982, with
contributions to more than 300, and he was awarded
an OBE for services to literature before War Horse
opened. He is also a poet, librettist and playwright, and
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Several of
his books have become plays and films.
He is known, particularly since the late 1990s, for
books that introduce children to episodes of history,
including those that might seem too upsetting for the young. So, persuade people first that children matter. He
for instance, his books Billy the Kid and The Mozart Question
refer to the Holocaust and the concentration camps. Kensukes
Kingdom alludes to the Nagasaki atom bomb. War Horse,
Private Peaceful and The Best Christmas Present in the World are for literacy, which has meant not reading whole
about the First World War; The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips
(now a play, 946), A Medal for Leroy and I Believe in Unicorns
concern the Second. An Eagle in the Snow touches on
both World Wars. Other historical tragedies he has
addressed include the Highland
Clearances (The Last Wolf), the Spanish
Civil War (Toro! Toro!), the loss of the
Titanic (Kaspar, Prince of Cats), the sinking
of the Lusitania (Listen to the Moon), the
Rwandan genocide (Dear Olly), the Foot
and Mouth crisis (Out of the Ashes), the Tsunami
(Running Wild) and the refugee crisis (Shadow).
With all such events, he strives for a universally humane rather
than a partisan position. He believes that children can cope
with darker subjects than we normally suppose: I write what
I feel and trust the reader. And he believes passionately in the
importance of passing on our history to each new generation.
Morpurgo also believes in passing on our literary heritage,
and a significant part of his work has been the retelling of
legends and classic tales: for example, of King Arthur, Robin
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Hood, Aesops Fables, Pinocchio. Animals and
the countryside are a recurrent theme. He was
the founder in 1976, with his wife Clare, of
Farms for City Children, which gives 3,000
urban children a year the chance to stay on a
working farm; their experiences
have found their way into stories
such as Not Bad for a Bad Lad,
in which a troubled boy has his
life turned around by working
with horses.
He has written picture books,
early readers, books for middle grade and some
books. And he is an advocate of the value of writing for the
young. I wish childrens literature to be taken as seriously as
any literature The best of it is as great as any literature.
It was his desire to raise the status of, and achieve recognition
for, great childrens books that prompted Morpurgo and his
friend, the Poet Laureate Ted Hughes, to found the
biennial Childrens Laureateship. He became the third
incumbent, from 2003 to 2005. In this role and outside
it he has been a passionate spokesperson on issues
concerning childhood, education and libraries, as well as
wider causes. He has spoken up for children in general:
in our society, he has said: The problem is
that we dont value children. We have to
has agitated for proper public and school library
provision, and PLR for authors. He has tackled
the Government over the hijacking of literature
books in the classroom. He has been a voice for children who
find analysis and testing, with the potential for failure, a
deterrent to readingas, at one stage in his youth, did he.
He believes that imparting a love of stories is the most
important step on the road to the benefits of literacy.
He has gone beyond our own schools and libraries to
consider the plight of children beyond our shores. He
advocates compassion for refugees, and believes as a
nation we should let the children in. The picture book
Coming Home, which he produced for Waitrose this past
Christmas, turned a television ad on the flight of a
robin into a verse narrative of a journey of
hardships overcome. He makes us laugh and cry,
entertains us and encourages us to do good.
Michael Morpurgos new book, TOTO: The Amazing
Dog-Gone Story of the Wizard of Oz will be published
on 7th September by Harper Collins Childrens Books.
Egmont is reissuing Morpurgos backlist with a new
look. The programme started on 9th March with the
reissue of Kensukes Kingdom (see jacket above) and five other titles;
more titles will be reissued on 4th May and 29th June.
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She wrote The Girl Who Beat
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in the UK: all the publishers Farida Khalaf
thought they had another mega
bestseller like I Am Malala. The book quickly sold all over the
worldin America to the wonderful Atria Books.
Fantastic press junkets and author tours were planned; Amal
Clooney and the UN came calling, too, before they found Nadia
Murad, because poor Farida had spilled all her guts writing the
book and was depleted, completely. She had to turn them all
down and go into hiding. She spent the years undergoing
psychotherapy every day, forcing herself to relive her nightmares
in order to overcome her trauma and begin to try to live a new
life. All the grand publishing plans for her book had to be
changed; Farida was even terrified to show her face on the cover.

High expectations
It was not easy for me to inform publishers whose months of
extensive publication plans, and catalogue and marketing
strategies would have to be scrapped. They had bought the
book with high profile expectations for the author. But Faridas
emotional fragility was about to shatter and everyone understood
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last year. It did receive brilliant reviews and was covered by the
press, but not having a celebrity to endorse it or an author who
could be put on TV was a huge hindrance to the sales.
This past September, Farida finally stepped out of the shadows
to face the cameras. A miracle for an innocent girl who has
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HarperHolland in Amsterdam. With her co-writer, Andrea
Claudia Hoffmann, by her side, she spoke to reporters and was
interviewed on TV. Her book sales in Holland went sky high.
She talked, she smiled, she walked along the picturesque canals
and she cried. Farida had finally come out of her shell and finally
could tell the world herself what had happened. The prospects
for future book sales brightened up considerably, to say the least.
The paperback edition of her book is set for July 2017. We
were all excited about the prospect of an author tour in
America. I was planning my own little tour for Farida to New
York City for the first timea Broadway musical, shopping at
Bergdorfs, hair and make-up at a swanky salon and dinner at

the Time Warner Building overlooking all of Central Park just

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pupil and was the top of her class in math; her childhood
dream was to be a math teacher and I thought I would be able
to help her enrol in a university here, too. I was anxious for
Americans to watch her on TV and learn about her firsthand,
maybe meet her themselves at a Barnes & Noble.

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But for the moment and the foreseeable future, Trumps
Muslim Ban or his attempt at it (as of this writing, the latest 1945 and providing the latest analysis on:
court decision is unanimous 3-0 against him) makes all that
impossible for America. I represent foreign authors, many of
whom have been banned in their own homes and look to
America for freedom as well as book sales; Han Kang, Masoud
Aquil, Raif Badawi and Ensaf Haidar, Bandi and others. It is regional economic developments
shameful to face them; it is shameful to face anyone.
But, speaking in terms of the business of bookselling and energy resources and climate change
promoting my authors in my own country, Trump is destroying
my business in America; he is not helping it. Banned from entering
gender and inequality
America, Farida and others must look elsewhere where their and other macroeconomic issues
bookselling is welcomed and can flourish. All my Muslim clients
are more than welcome in the UK and so the London Book Fair
will become more important than ever for
English-language editions and authors in
translation. Farida has been invited to the
Edinburgh Book Fair in August and for a
book tour in the UK. American booksellers,
publishers and readers are losing out.
This year it is not America that will
host the most important free speech,
international book event in history. We
are going to Korea on 28th March.
Eleven publishers around the world who publish Bandi and his
book, The Accusation (smuggled out of North Korea), are
meeting in Seoul, where we will celebrate the American edition
and foreign-language publications. Seoul is embracing the book
and its authorhailed as the Korean Solzhenitsyn. It is bitterly
ironic to think about visiting the DMZ zone with my colleagues
as the president of my own country is trying to build his own
DMZ-like zone between the US and Mexico.
I find business solace, because I have operated in the global
market for many years and know it well. Fortunately and
unfortunately, I am not reliant on America for my earnings.
London, Seoul, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City and other cities
around the world are going to become more important than
ever for me and the book business. International writers and
publishing folks dont put up with being banned anymore. We To learn more, contact asmith2@imf.org
can fight against it at every turn. America is not the only show
in town. I hope my fellow Americans understand that before
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Honest pretence
Nicholas Jones thinks that audiobooks can be a powerful force for encouraging
diversity in casting. What matters is the sincerity of the reading
In his preface to Pygmalion
(a story perhaps better
known to some as My Fair
Lady), George Bernard Shaw
avers that: It is impossible
for an Englishman to open
his mouth without making
some other Englishman hate
or despise him. He was
writing in 1912 (forgive his
lack of inclusive language;
we know he meant man or
woman). That work may be
the best known example Nicholas Jones with Adjoa Andoh in the studio green room before she
where speech-based reads The Ascent of Gravity
prejudice is at the centre of the story, but the idea is
apparent very much further back than that. Chaucer made
his Pardoner self-aware of the way language can disguise
character: as Coghills modern-English version puts it: For
though I am a wholly vicious man, dont think I cant tell
moral tales. I can! And Charles Dickens, in 1861, has
Magwitch in Great Expectations railing against the
preferential treatment Compeyson gets in their joint trial
because: He was a smooth one to talk, and was a dab at
the ways of gentlefolks.
Theres a modern academic counterpart to this: in 2002
researchers from Lancaster and Worcester Universities
asked participants to judge innocence or guilt when they
heard what purported to be a recording of a police
interview. Half the participants heard the suspect speak
with RP (received pronunciation, or BBC English) and
half heard him with a Birmingham accent. Sad to say, the
Brummie speaker was significantly more likely to be judged imbued with the sense, absolutely the authors intention,
guilty. The particular ingenuity of this experiment,
however, was that the speaker was actually the same
personsomeone who had grown up in Birmingham, but
gone to drama school, and who could switch vocal identity
at will.
As Australian-American linguist Chi Luu observed when
citing this last research in JStor Daily: Obviously some
listeners believe they can predict the criminal element
through accent alone. Yet American listeners, not having
access to the same common social stereotypes, often rate
the Brummie accent as pleasant-sounding.
Challenging stereotypes
As audiobook producers, we have a great opportunity to
challenge some of these stereotypes when we are choosing
who is going to perform an audiobook. Do we choose a
1
performer who matches our prediction of listeners likely
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prejudices, or do we find
one who will do a sincere
job but might well not
match those expectations?
And if the latter, will our
audience listen to the
recording for long enough to
be won over by the inherent
quality of the performance?
Will they decide our
possibly daring choice is
inspired, or distracting?
Two particular examples
come to mind from my time
as audio producer. One was
about 15 years ago, when I recorded the English translation
of Lothar Gnter-Bucheims book about a U-boat in 1941,
Das Boot. It would have been easy to get any of the alpha-
male, RP readers used at that time for war stories, but I felt
it was necessary to make it constantly clear that this was
from the German point of view. I wanted to prompt the
thought that the two sides actually had much in common.
To have a classic English voice might have added an
overtone of complacency or condescension; however hard
the performer might try to avoid it, he might be
subconsciously thinking we won.
So I looked in the casting directory Spotlight and found
that Wolf Khler had been born in Kiel in 1940, but now
lived in north London. His voice is not unaccented, and
some critics questioned the ease of listening, but I think
that this reminder of the narrators point of view increases
the power of the story. His performance is naturally
that the crew desire to be professional and carry out the
tasks for which they are trained, but are increasingly
doubting the morality and value of what they have to do.
Fifteen years on, Orion Audiobooks has asked
Strathmore to record Marcus Chowns The Ascent of
Gravity, his account for a general audience of current
understanding of the physics of gravity. The
straightforward option would be to find a traditional
white male to read, but Orion had the inspired idea of
asking Adjoa Andoh. She is British-Ghanaian and grew up
near Bristol. You have only to look at her catalogue of
audio recordings to see how immensely versatile she is,
from Joanna Trollope to Hanoverian history via the Mma
Ramotswe stories, but this is a further extension of her
range. Orions imaginative casting will encourage potential
listeners to take a risk on what they might initially consider
a challenging subject.
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Authentic but not predictable
The crucial element in both fiction and non-fiction is to be
authentic. But that doesnt mean predictable. As Gemma
Arterton recently remarked2, In theatre weve got people
from the poshest you can get, down to me [shes the
daughter of a cleaner and a welder]. Theres a real mixture.
We should just get over the whole class and race thing, and
cast people who are right for the part.
Thats a great principle for casting audiobooks. Our
industry could be leading the way in this, since it is not
constrained by the physical appearance of performers. The
sole criterion for casting should be a performers capacity
to communicate clearly and compellingly, demonstrating
understanding and appreciation of the text. Sometimes a
performer established in one genre may be able to bring an
audience across into a different genre, which that audience
might not otherwise trysuch as Adjoa Andoh and physics,
we hope.
A listener picks up meaning not just from vocabulary and
grammar, but also from what is known technically as
prosodythe pitch and intonation that communicate
things like emotion, irony, sarcasm, emphasis, urgency.
Most humans are very good at detecting it, but imparting it
requires sincerity and engagementor good acting based on
knowledge and honesty. This is true not just in speech: as
classical singer Janet Baker puts it: If you sing only
because you want people to love you, it never works. The
music must always come before the performer.
It is an actors job to be many different things. Elizabeth
Bower, recently in our studio to perform Date with Death,
a delightful light-hearted detective story set in the
Yorkshire Dales, describes herself in her Twitter profile as
Professional Pretender. Elizabeth is from Yorkshire, so
she meets the based on knowledge test. But I shall leave
the final thought to Ed Nelson, lead actor in the 1960s US
soap Peyton Place. At the end of its five-year run, he was
asked what he had learned from his time on the show. Ive
found that the most important thing for an actor is honesty.
When you learn how to fake that, youre in.
1
Readers of my previous columns will know that I use perform rather
than read to avoid any possible confusion with the audience for the
spoken or written word
2
Interview in Town and Country magazine, Spring 2017
Nicholas Jones founded audio production company Strathmore
Publishing in 1995. It has since produced more than a thousand
audiobooks ranging from Richard Dawkins to Julia Donaldson.

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The best of European childrens literature

The contributors for Aarhus 39, a partnership May, publishing in English with Alma Books
between Hay Festival and the European Capital and in Danish with Gyldendal later this year.
of Culture 2017, Aarhus in Denmark, were Interpretations of the theme range from
announced yesterday at the London Book Fair, fantastical adventure stories to tales of
writes Jasmin Kirkbride. The announcement refugees. The idea of things being mobile
was made during an event featuring two of the and not restricted is so important to the way

photo: John Lawrence

Aarhus 39 writers, Katherine Rundell and
Sarah Crossan, Hay Festival childrens director
Julia Eccleshare, and editor of the Aarhus 39
anthologies, Daniel Hahn.
The 39 childrens and YA writers, from
20 countries and working in 16 languages, Daniel Hahn
were whittled down from more than 400
submissions by three acclaimed contemporary childrens
authors: Kim Fupz Aakeson (Denmark), Ana Cristina
Herreros (Spain) and Matt Haig (UK).
Hay Festival has embarked upon a number of 39 projects
in the past, usually tied to a UNESCO City of Literature:
Bogot for Latin American writers, Beirut 39 for the Middle
Eastern diaspora and Africa 39 for Sub-Saharan African
authors. These sit alongside the Mexico 20 project for the
London Book Fairs Mexico Market Focus in 2015.
In each case, Hay identified a generation of writers to
showcase, says Daniel Hahn, pointing out that the Aarhus
39 writers are all under 40. Aarhus is also more specifically
focused on books for children and YA than the others were.
The projects focus on Europe could not come at a more
poignant moment in Hahns eyes. By complete coincidence,
the judgesactually had the meeting to select the 39 writers on
23 June 2016, he recalls. So we were having our very positive,
outward-looking, bridge-building conversation while outside
this cataclysmic thing was happening in society and politics.
Even more appropriately, each of the 39 authors has been
commissioned to write an original story for the anthologies
on the theme of Journey. These stories will form two
collections, which will launch at Hay Festival Wales in
we talk about politics and the modern
European experience now, comments Hahn.
Beyond the political, Hahn is thrilled by the
look of the collections too, as each story has
been assigned its own illustrator, ranging
from Chris Riddell to Tony Ross. Making
these books attractive is important, as it will
help the stories spread. As Hahn points out, though we have
a growing, dynamic childrens market in this country, it isnt
always terribly diverse. Quite intentionally, therefore, the
majority of the Aarhus 39 writers have never been published
in English before and only four write in English originally.
Generally, there are two reasons for getting children to read
internationally, Hahn explains. One of them is the political:
you learn about others cultures and youre much more likely
to feel empathy. There is a benefit to trying to understand
rather than trying to isolate yourself. The other more
straightforward reason is that 95% of the people in the world
dont have English as a first language, so if we only read books
written by English-speaking people, we miss out on a huge
amount of good writing. Its very easy for publishers and
readers in this country to forget that, so practically this project
is also a way of accessing some really exciting storytelling.
To further this goal, the project will culminate at this
years inaugural European Childrens Literature Hay Festival
in Aarhus (2529 October). Organised with the support of
Literature Across Frontiers and the British Council, it will be
the first ever globally recognised childrens literature festival.
The 39 writers will be invited to spend five days in Aarhus
visiting schools and taking part in the festival programme.

The full Aarhus 39 selection is:

var r Benediktsson Iceland
Alaine Agirre Spain
Aline Sax Belgium
Ana Pessoa Portugal
Andri Antoniou Cyprus
Anna Woltz Netherlands
Annelise Heurtier France
Annette Mnch Norway
B R Collins UK
Cathy Clement Luxembourg
Cornelia Travnicek Austria
David Machado Portugal
Dy Plambeck Denmark
Elisabeth Steinkellner Austria Maria Turtschaninoff Finland
Endre Lund Eriksen Norway Michaela Holzinger Austria
Finn-Ole Heinrich Germany Nataly Savina Latvia
Frida Nilsson Sweden Nina Elisabeth Grntvedt Norway
Gideon Samson Netherlands Peder Frederik Jensen Denmark
Inna Manakhova Russia Salla Simukka Finland
Jana rmkov Czech Republic Sandrine Kao France
Katherine Rundell UK Sanne Munk Jensen Denmark
Katherine Woodfine UK Sarah Crossan Ireland/UK
Laura Dockrill UK Sarah Engell Denmark
Laura Gallego Spain Stefan Bachmann Switzerland
Ludovic Flamant Belgium Stefanie de Velasco Germany
Maria Parr Norway Victor Dixen France

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Polish crime fiction

comes of age
For many American mystery and crime readers, Polish detectives
begin and end with Sara Paretskys iconic Chicago private
detective V.I. Warshawskialthough V.I. only has a limited
knowledge of her Polish heritage. Thats likely to change,
writes Lenny Picker, as Poland begins to follow Scandinavia as
a source of a variety of high-quality and nuanced European
crime fiction for British and American audiences.
Olga Tokarczuk is arguably Polands most
eminent contemporary novelist. In 2015, she
won the Nike Prize, Polands top literary
award, for The Books of Jacob. A bestselling
historical novel about an 18th-century
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Tokarczuk offers another take on what it means to be Polish Increase visibility and exposure
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sleuth, Janina Duszejko, comes to believe that a series of strange
murders of hunters in a remote corner of Poland were actually
perpetrated by animals taking revenge on their oppressors.
Because of her age and gender, Janinas suspicions arent taken Automatic sales reporting.
seriously, which reflects, as Tokarczuks long-time translator
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and Swedishand it will soon get even more attention, thanks workload in half.
to a forthcoming film adaptation by Oscar-nominated director
Agnieszka Holland (In Darkness, Europa Europa).
Lloyd-Jones, who received grant support to translate excerpts Understand the market.
of this novel into English from the Polish Book Institute (PBI),
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Crime and reality pricing and discounts.
PBI director Dariusz Jaworski observes that after science fiction,
crime fiction is the fastest growing literary genre in Poland.
Polish detective stories show the social diversity of Poland,
says Jaworski, and showcases the variety of our
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Jaworski believes that Polands social and anywhere, anytime.
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stories use genre fiction to talk about Polish realities, such as
local politics, corruption and organised crime. But Jaworski
feels strongly that the wave of current Polish crime fiction is
not so hermetic that they become incomprehensible to people
unfamiliar with Polish realities, and thus have a wide appeal.
As a result of the recent boom, English readers have a wealth
of Polish-themed crime novels to choose from. Marek Krajewski,
whos been called the first crime fiction writer from Poland to
be seriously published in the UK, has written 13 historical crime
fiction novels, alternating between two series leads who both
sleuth in the period between the two World Wars: Eberhard
Mock, a German police officer with questionable morals, who
investigates murders in Breslau; and Edward Popielski, a police
commissioner and philologist turned PI, who detects in the
former Polish city Lww (today Ukrainian Lviv). His latest is
Mock, which was published in September by Quercus.
This past August, Amazon Crossing
published Rage, Zygmunt Mioszewskis third
novel featuring state prosecutor Teodor
Szacki. As in his prior two Szacki books,
2007s Entanglement and 2012s A Grain of
Truth (both published by Bitter Lemon Press),
Mioszewski uses the genre to explore a vital
social issue: domestic abuse. A dramatisation
on BBC Radio 4 of Entanglement gave
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Szacki, and Mioszewski, more visibility,
and an adaptation of A Grain of Truth is
on tap for 2018.
One of Polands most popular genre
novels in recent years, Katarzyna Bondas
Girl at Midnight, will be published in
June by Hodder & Stoughton. Girl at
Midnight debuts a four-book series
starring police profiler Sasha Zauska,
who represents the increased frequency of female leads.
Another profiler features in Mariusz Czubajs 21:37 (The
Stork Press, 2013), which takes its name from a time
familiar to all Polesthe hour when Pope John Paul II died.
Cruzbajs taut whodunit takes on major social issues, such
as corporate corruption, racism, homophobia and the role
of the Catholic Church. Stork Press also brought Joanna
Jodekas Polychrome to an English-reading audience in
2013. This story of a series of murders solved by intuition,
rather than traditional forensic methods, garnered Jodeka
the distinction of being the first woman to win the High
Calibre Award for Best Polish Crime Novel.
A UK audience
The more than 800,000 Polish immigrants to the UK make
them the largest foreign-born group in the countryand there
are even more Brits who descended from the more than
200,000 post-Second World War immigrants from Poland.
Despite these statistics, publisher after publisher told Anya
Lipska, a Brit married to a Pole, that no one would read a
thriller set in the Polish community in London. Undeterred,
Lipska self-published her first novel, Where the
Devil Cant Go, and positive reviews from her
readers led to its being released subsequently by
The Friday Project/Harper Collins UK in 2013.
That effort was followed by Death Cant
Take a Joke (2014) and A Devil Under the
Skin (2015). Lipskas lead, PI Janusz Kiszka,
is a Polish expat, whom she uses as a kind
of prism through which to view modern
British society. All three Kiszka novels
have been optioned by BBC Television. Lipska links the recent
surge in Polish crime fiction to the growing acceptance, in a
country that spent decades under totalitarian rule, that the
police can actually be viewed as good guys.
And Anglo-American readers more comfortable with
Polish-themed works set on their own turf also have plenty
to look forward to. In January, Little, Brown UK starts a
new series by Hania Allen, the daughter of Polish refugees,
featuring Polish Detective Sergeant Danuta Gorska.
And fans of V.I. Warshawski will be pleased to encounter
Dallas Police Detective Betty Rhyzyk, a cop from a family of
cops, in Kathleen Kents The Dime (Mulholland Books). Kent,
who made many Polish friends when she worked in the
former Soviet Union, describes her leada nearly six-foot tall
Polish lesbian with flaming red hairas a female character
who is courageous, deeply pragmatic and ferociously loyal,
but with a romantic bent you know, Polish!
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Have you got the Write Stuff?

The Write Stuff is a two-hour, Dragons Den-
style public event at London Book Fairs Author
We chose our to see your proposal from a different perspective,
and the opportunity to get feedback from such an
HQ, writes Jasmin Kirkbride. Its grown in winner based experienced panel of agents is invaluable.
popularity every year since the first event three So far, then, the Write Stuff event has
years ago in 2015, and 2017 is no exception.
on the most demonstrated a high level of success for its authors
Hopeful writers send their submissions to Midas effective pitch, and agents. This is reinforced every year: Hart has
PR, which organises the event with LBF. Work been invited back to speak at the Write Stuff 2017,
from six shortlisted authors is sent to the
but also on the just as 2016s event featured the inaugural winner,
participating panel of agents ahead of time. At the most powerful Sanjiv Rana,who has since signed with Toby
event, the authors give a three-minute pitch of their Mundy for his manuscript,The Insignificance of
manuscripts to the agents in front of an audience,
writing style. Good Intentions. Kahn doesnt think this hit rate is
receiving feedback from the agents on the spot. The Ella Kahn a fluke: the applicants are pre-vetted and the kind
agents then go away to pick their winner, of authors who are likely to apply will be of a
announced live at the end of the event. Its clearly not a contest for certain professionalism in the first place.
the faint of heart. We chose our winner based on the most The winners prize is the chance for a follow-up meeting with
effective pitch, but also on the most powerful writing style, said one of the agents. Hart would encourage any writer to get
Ella Kahn, an agent at Diamonds Kahn and Woods Literary involved: It was also just really fun to meet other writers and
Agency, who become involved in last years Write Stuff panel as a hang out somewhere that had such an encouraging environment.
result of winning the inaugural 2016 Trailblazer Award. My advice to anyone taking part this year, or thinking of
applying for next year, would be Go for it! adds Stapleton. Be
Wide range of material yourself, be enthusiastic and professional about your work, but,
Last year saw a wide range of submissions, with a varied shortlist above all, be willing to take on board the feedback offered.
including multiple non-fiction proposals. They do a really good The Write Stuff is today (16 March) from 2:00pm in Author HQ.
job of picking six quite different submissions, comments Kahn,
so even the ones that were not in my genre or taste were still
interesting to feed back on.
Last years agents selected Natalie Hart as their winner, with her
pitch forNot My Soldier. I found it quite a scary experience,
Hart recalls. Id applied in the first place not even considering I
might get through to the final, and the project that I was working
on at the time was intensely personal to me, so to actually have to
stand up and talk about that in front of an audience and a panel of
experts was intimidating.
Coming from a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of
Lancaster, and with online fiction courses at Faber Academy and
the Gotham Writers Workshop under her belt, Hart had no small
amount of experience already, but she still remembers shaking as
she made her pitch. To get to the final alone made me see myself
as a writer more and it was a great boost in terms of finishing the
manuscript.To find out Id won was overwhelming. There was
some strong competition, so to be picked above those people made
me feel very humble. Whats more her success continued after the
event, with press coverage and, after some more months of writing,
a signed contract with Khan. Ella was really cool and supportive,
comments Hart. She was a really constant and reassuring
presence during that process.
Its not just the winner who has success: Tim Bates of PFD,
another participating agent, signed Susannah Stapleton, one of the
other shortlisted authors.Pitching to the judges was the most
terrifying three minutes of my writing career to date, admits
Stapleton. I was extremely fortunate to sign up withTimBates
after the event, but, even without that amazing outcome, it would
still have been a very worthwhile experience. The whole process
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The answer is 42
David Montgomery argues that artificial intelligence can augment the work of
humans, not replace themat least for now!
When we hear the term artificial computing created to help humans who are
intelligence, or AI, popular cultural dealing with cognitive overload because of
images, such as HAL from 2001: A Space the complexity of data they are dealing with
Odyssey, the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, or decisions they are trying to make.IBM
and Ultron in the most recent Avengers film, wants to create systems to augment human
often come to mind. The man against capabilities, not eliminate humans entirely
machine theme is very much in vogue, and from the process.
popular movies and TV series like This approach of augmenting human
Ex-Machina, Westworld and Humans have capabilities can be used in publishing.
further cemented this trend. Some of that Service providers and some in-house
fictional fear also bleeds into our reality departments at publishers are creating new
with many media articles claiming that David Montgomery systems to process big data in the areas of
automation or machine learning platforms bookselling, editing, rights, advertising
will put humans out of work.
Turning big and learning.
Last year at the London Book Fairs data into a big For bookselling, machine learning could
Quantum Conference, Nick Bostrom, recommend better types of books to readers.
philosopher and author of Superintelligence,
opportunity is As publishers mine their backlist for
even stated: Artificial Intelligence could in one of the main increased revenue, machine learning systems
the end replace most, if not all, of the high- can help them better understand and access
level functions of an editor, but if you get to challenges their full rights catalogue in order to take
that point then the whole game changes not publishers are advantage of current trends in the
just for an industry, but for humanity as a marketplace. And, for academic publishers,
whole, because it will have become super- currently machine learning could offer a more
intelligent. Though that makes for a good confronted accurate approach to learning by measuring
soundbite, in reality, AI can help humans be a students understanding of concepts and
more productive, explore new markets and witha tailoring a specific framework for that
customers, and grow revenue, taking away challenge where students learning. But these are just a few
many of the more boring, time-consuming areas in which machine learning can and is
aspects of work while freeing up space to AI can help. being explored.
explore new creative ideas. Publishers can also take a page from the
In the last few years, publishers have been given access to book of similar industries which are already implementing
an extraordinary amount of granular information about machine learning. In the media space, for example, machine
customers and products in the marketplace. This learning is already being employed on both the editorial
information tells publishers how, when, and why customers and advertising side of operations. It was revealed recently
buy books, whether they complete them, and what other that the Associated Press is already using machine learning
titles they might want to read on the same subject. This technology and natural language generation to write news
big data can help publishers make informed decisions on stories1. Meanwhile advertisers are exploring multiple ways
the types of products they publish, how they should sell of tailoring messaging based on reader behaviour and
them and what marketing they should invest in. collated first-party data.
Unfortunately, there is just too much data for humans to While some see the rise of machines as cause for concern,
process quickly and effectively. Turning big data into a big another option is to see what new territories and ideas we
opportunity is one of the main challenges publishers are can explore while machines are processing all of the
currently confronted witha challenge where AI can help. information we cant or dont want to delve into. Human
Using machine learning, computers can ingest vast amounts analysis will always still be required, so our jobs are safe
of data, learn what the data means and recommend next for now!
steps, something humans find very difficult.
From chatbots on retail sites to programmatic 1
R Miller, 29 January 2015, APs robot journalists are writing their own
stories now, The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/29/7939067/
advertising, machine learning is already a big part of daily
ap-journalism-automation-robots-financial-reporting).
life, and most people have never heard of it beyond,
perhaps, IBMs Watson. IBM Watson Health is cognitive David Montgomery is CEO of Ingenta.

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 London show daily
Nielsen Book relaunches Bestseller Awards
For more than 40 years the American
music industry has been rewarding
bestselling artists with Gold and
Platinum Awardshighly valued by
recipients and extremely effective in
marketing the music industry to
consumers, writes Jo Henry. A
similar scheme has operated for
books in the UK since 2001, when
Nielsen Book established its Gold
(sales of 500,000 copies) and (Left to right) Anthony Horowitz, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Martina Cole received awards
Platinum (sales of 1 million copies)
Awards based on Nielsen BookScan records for print books.
Since then, the publishing world has changed significantly,
with ebooks now an important part of the sales mix. In 2017,
therefore, Nielsen Book relaunched its Awards to include
ebook sales, tracked by its Nielsen PubTrack Digital service,
and with the addition of a new Silver Award to the roster to
acknowledge sales of 250,000 copies; all Awards will now be
based on both print and ebook sales. With the support of
Specsavers and the Sunday Times, the 2016 winners of the
Specsavers Bestseller Awards were announced at a star-studded with Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris receiving Gold and Silver
event in London on 25th January this year. Nielsen Book and
Specsavers also announced the new 21st Century UK Platinum
Hall of Fame. Platinum authors are automatically included in
this, as are specially selected authors who have sold millions of
books throughout their careers, but have not yet had one
specific title reach that milestone.
To sell a million copies of one title is a relatively rare
achievement and since records began at the end of the 20th
century only 91 titles and 62 authors have achieved this
accolade. The class of 2016 added another 11 titles and 7
authors, and reveals an interesting insight into the reading
tastes of the British public. Top of the charts was Paula
Hawkins with her debut novel The Girl on the Train, which,
according to Nielsen BookScan records, has sold more than 2
million copies in all editions since publication in January 2015.
Also achieving Platinum status were: body coach Joe Wicks
with his first book Lean in 15; Jojo Moyes with her romantic
weepy Me Before You; SJ Watsons debut thriller Before I Go to
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Sleep; and JK Rowling with co-authors John Tiffany and Jack
Thorne for their collaboration on Harry Potter and the Cursed
Child. The childrens category was particularly rich: other titles
that achieved Platinum status in 2016 were an astonishing four
books by David Walliams (Demon Dentist, Awful Auntie,
Billionaire Boy and Mr. Stink), with that amazingly fruitful
team of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler reaching 1 million
sales for both Stick Man and Monkey Puzzle.
At the Awards event in London, satire was also a big winner,
Specsavers Bestseller Awards, for their satirical titles including
How It Works: The Husband and The Ladybird Guide to the
Hangover inspired by the iconic Ladybird books for children,
and Bruno Vincents Five on Brexit Island taking a Silver Award.
Honorary Platinum Awards were also presented at the event
to: Dame Jacqueline Wilson, who has sold an astonishing 19
million copies of all her books including the Hetty Feather and
Tracy Beaker series; Martina Cole, with more than 9 million
sales of novels including Dangerous Lady, The Take and The
Madam; and Anthony Horowitz, who has sold more than 6.5
million copies of books featuring his own creations such as the
teen spy Alex Rider, as well as books starring classic characters
Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. All three have now joined
the 21st Century UK Platinum Hall of Fame.
Others who reached Gold or Silver status in 2016 include non-
fiction authors Caitlin Moran, Professor Steve Peters, Owen Jones
and Millie Morotta, the artist whose books inspired the adult
colouring in craze. In fiction, B A Parris, Kate Atkinson and Dinah
Jeffries all reached significant milestones, as did childrens vlogger-
turned-author Zoe Sugg and Liz Pichon, creator of Tom Gates.
Nielsen Book and Specsavers will create opportunities for
authors reaching milestones throughout the year to be honoured
at special events, culminating with an annual event each January
to celebrate everyone who reaches Platinum, Gold or Silver
status. News will be available on the official site throughout
the year: http://specsaversbestsellerawards.com.
Follow scott-of-the-charts@Scottcharts for updates on bestsellers;
for information on trophy sales for the Awards, contact
Matthew.Mansfield@nielsen.com; for details of the scheme in general
contact Alastair@agile-ideas.com. For more information on Nielsen Book
go to www.nielsenbook.co.uk.
Jo Henry is vp, insight & analytics at Nielsen Book.
 Thursday 16 March 2017
Oneworld: And the winner is
What does winning the Man Booker prize
two years running do to an independent
publisher? Juliet Mabey lifts the lid on the
transformation of Oneworld after Marlon
James won in 2015 with A Brief History of
Seven Killings and Paul Beatty won last year
with The Sellout.
Our mission from the outset in the mid-80s
was to publish really great books for a
broad audience, and that remit hasnt
changed at all. Weve broadened out our Juliet Mabey
publishing programme somewhat, with first
a literary fiction list almost eight years ago,
then a YA list and a crime list, but essentially
we have always wanted to beto put it bluntly
best in class. We want to publish the best
popular science and history books, the most
accessible books on global issues, on psychology
and current affairs. Essentially we want to be
the go to publisher for high quality books that
help the general reader understand the world
around them.
And this is where prizes like the Man Booker
play such an important role: they raise your
profile significantly across the book trade, from
authors and agents to booksellers and literary
reviewers. The impact has been huge in so many
ways. On the one hand, we increased our
turnover in 2016 by a significant 32% on 2015,
itself a record yearup 55% on 2014. And while
we dont have ambitions to expand our current
lists per se, we are very ambitious, but our
ambitions are all to do with the quality of the
books we publish, and ensuring we have the
very best team in place to edit, design, produce
and promote the books we choose to publish;
in other words, to publish them well.
After our 2015 Man Booker win we
expanded our publicity team and, as 2016 was
our 30th anniversary, we also redesigned our
logo and completely rebuilt our website from
the bottom up. In late 2016 we went on to
expand both our design and marketing
departments and reorganised our sales team,
finally taking all our sales functions in-house.
One of the difficulties navigating the huge
increase in workload following the win, whether
on the sales side managing stock and print runs,
or on the publicity and marketing side, is to
ensure other books on the list are not neglected.
We had already organised a week-long UK tour for Paul
Beatty ahead of the Man Booker award ceremony to
maximise the opportunity to build his profile in the UK,
London show daily
supplementing the official promotion
activities with numerous solo events, as well
as Channel 4 News and BBC World TV
interviews and various radio programmes.
Following his win and a week of intensive,
high-profile news coverage, we then turned
to organising a second tour of the UK in
December for a pre-Christmas push with
packed events, interviews and signings, and
immediately found ourselves fielding
requests from all over the world for festival
appearances through 2017 and beyond. Our
publicity department rose to the challenge
magnificently, juggling the heavy workload for
The Sellout with fantastic campaigns for books
like Jenni Murrays A Brief History of Britain in
21 Women and Peggy Orensteins Girls & Sex.
On the editorial side, we are now on more
agents and foreign publishers radars than ever
before, and they are sending us books they
might not have two or three years ago. They
know they can safely recommend us to their
authors, who can see how much their own
books will benefit from the reputation and
credibility of the Oneworld brand. Coping
with the increase in submissions has taken a
lot of work, but we are fortunate that since
relocating to London in 2011, we have been
steadily expanding our editorial team, which
now numbers 11 full- and part-time editors.
Everyone pulled together.
And for Oneworld, winning the Man Booker
Prize twice has injectedhuge confidence into the
company, given it a profile that allows it to do
more of what it does best, and has allowed its
other authors to surf the James & Beatty waves.
But most importantly of all, we have the
satisfaction of knowing that we have made
superstars of two amazing authors, who can now
expect at the very minimum financial security in
the form of a very good income, not only from
the sales of both their winning books and
backlist titles, but also from a flurry of
additional foreign rights sales, increased book
advances and speaker fees, and the like.
And both books are potentially game
changers in terms of the kinds of literary fiction
that will be published, championed and read in
the UK. Utterly original works, rather than
derivative of or reactionary to the market,
perhaps they can change the market itself. Now thats
something worth winning for.
Juliet Mabey is the publisher and co-founder of Oneworld Publications
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Enriching the book trade landscape
Every day the news brings us a barrage of
words about walls, divisions, barriers and
bans, writes Isobel Dixon. These are strange,
fractious and fractured times, and it seems
more urgent than ever to tear our eyes away
from our Twitter streams and look to the ways
in which we are building our small part of the
world, here in the publishing industry.
The Association of Authors Agents (AAA) has
been seeking to engage more proactively, vocally
and practically with issues of diversity and
inclusivity, and as the committee member with Isobel Dixon
this brief Im heartened by the response from the
membership, many of us in small or medium-sized, but growing
agencies, often on a steep learning curve. Were all learning
from each otheragents, publishers, booksellers, other key
players in the media and creative industriesand issues we once
saw being brushed off as of little relevance to some are now at
least being grappled with more widely and in earnest. Yes,
more should have been done sooner, and I have heard people
being sceptical about inclusivity and diversity discussions, but
there is more depth to it than just pat-on-the-back panels and
for-the-sake-of-it debates. Events like the Building Inclusivity
in Publishing Conference (run by the Publishers Association
and LBF late last year) provided a valuable forum for new
connections and the sharing of ideas across the book trade,
leading not just to more talk, but to positive action.
The AAA plans a summer event focused on inclusivity so we can
bring our members together with a wide range of players, from
those focused on employment like Creative Access and Arts
Emergency, to writer development agencies like Spread the Word
founded in 1995 by Bernadine Evaristo and Ruth Borthwick. They
have been doing good work in this area for years. A useful shock
to the system was Writing the Future, the report by Danuta Kean,
which Spread the Word commissioned in 2015. In revealing
the level of mono-culture in UK publishing it has perhaps
helped to spur some of the recent action in the fieldaction
which we will all have to work hard to sustain and grow.
Alert to new voices
As agents a key part of our job is to be alert to new voices and I
believe its our responsibility to be more proactive, more open,
more questioning of our assumptions than ever before as we
seek to sign new clients. Of course we are part of a longer
chain before our efforts reach readers, and we need publishers
and booksellers to want to nurture difference, to publish and
sell truly diverse voices, both home-grown and international
too. So its good to see projects like Random Houses Write
Now and 4th Estates BAME Short Story Prize.
As Ella Kahn of Diamond, Kahn and Woods says: As more
publishers are introducing schemes to address diversity in their
workforce and their publishing, so too must agents. We are not
just gatekeepers but must actively ensure we are reaching out to
authors from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible to
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ensure that we discover stories that reflect a
broad spectrum of influences. We will all have
to keep sharing our experience of the pitfalls and
successes in these projects in order to fully
enrich the publishing landscape, to use a
phrase from Jamila Ahmed, who also emphasises
photo: Jack Ladenburg
the importance of diversity in marketing from
both the writers and employees point of view,
not just focusing on editorial.
So much comes down to the people who work
hands-on with the stories that we champion,
acquire and share: open hiring and training
practices are vital. Publishing, like all the
creative industries, finds itself with an over-supply of potential
staff eager to get a foot on the lower rungs of this fascinating
career ladder. Its tempting for busy employers to take the easy
way out, to opt to hire based on close acquaintance and
personal recommendation, and many do. Whatever has
happened in the past, this cant be publishings future. Drawing
on a shallow pool of privilege, a mindset of people-like-us-
ness, and looking for someone who will easily fit in with the
rest keeps us from growing with the readershipand the
potentially much broader readershipwe seek to engage with.
Diversity initiatives
Several publishers have recently introduced well-publicised
diversity initiatives and adapted their hiring practices; others
have been quietly going about these things for a long time. Much
of publishing still follows work experience and internship
practices that require radical changefor too long theres been
wrongful reliance on an unacknowledged, unpaid work force.
Employers need to step up and ensure theyre following best
practice here in terms of offering fair remuneration. Creative
Skillset supplies some useful summary guidelines for employers
regarding work experience and internships.
Weve had a tremendous response to our own Carole Blake
Open Doors Project, with an impressive range of applicants
from all backgrounds from across the countrywith our aim to
welcome diversity of socio-economic as well as ethnic
background, and to encourage candidates from beyond the
London metropolitan area. Other agencies like Kingsford
Campbell are also stepping forward with diversity initiatives
and we hope to see more exciting approaches from others.
A recent visit to New York suggested that US publishing is
some way ahead of us in its inclusiveness, but Im interested to
find out more, see case studies and also hear about the
experience of publishers and agents from other countries when
we meet in London and Frankfurt. Thats what book fairs are
all about, after allhearing multiple voices and the sharing of
border-crossing stories, taking us out of the narrow confines of
only our own direct experience. 
Isobel Dixon is director and head of books at the Blake Friedmann
Literary Agency and a member of the Association of Authors Agents
Committee (Twitter: @isobeldixon).
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