Monster Books is getting its Spring 2018 catalogue ready, so I’ve been grappling with front covers over the last few days. Like ice skating, eating porridge and shopping for new trousers, it’s an activity I think I should enjoy but, actually, I don’t. I love going to...
There’s a mouse in our kitchen, and every time it makes an appearance we get a cartoon response: Hortense (aged 9) screams and stands on a chair and the boys whip out a selection of knives, hammers and spikes they have secreted about their persons and go on the...
Did you know the UK enjoys the world’s best global export performance for books, with export revenues in 2013 exceeding €1.5bn, compared with €1bn for the US or €331m for Spain? As expected, we translate very little foreign works into English – books from other...
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