Opinion

• Readers, writers and rejection slips

  Opinion - Publishing

  Nick Wells reflects on publishers' ambivalent relationship with the slush pile
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• Whatever happened to the last big things?

  Opinion - Books

  There was the usual flurry of excitement about various titles announced at the London Book Fair last month. But what has been the fate of titles that were similarly hyped...
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• Illumination from the dark

  Opinion - Books

  Thomas H Cook on why he has written his first non-fiction book, about the significance of dark places in his life
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• STM newsletter - April 2017

  Opinion - Academic

  Alastair Horne, in association with the London Book Fair, rounds up the news from the STM publishing world
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• There's more to Scandi fiction than crime

  Opinion - Books

  Nordic literature is better characterised by its emotional honesty, says Helene Fermont
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• Improving accessibility in publishing

  Opinion - Publishing

  Emma House reports on the key initiatives that are making books more accessible to print-disabled people and others
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• The robots are coming

  Opinion - Academic

  But they will be friendly, Joseph Noble argues
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• Tagholm's take - the news in books at 31.3.2017

  Opinion - Publishing

  Roger Tagholm, in association with the London Book Fair, offers his view of the week's news
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• Hachette: Changing the story

  Opinion - Publishing

  Yassine Belkacemi reports on Hachette's diversity initiative
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• Not much sense to this ending

  Opinion - Books

  The adapters of Julian Barnes' Man Booker winner have ignored the darkness of his narrative in favour of cosy uplift
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