What we’ll be reading in 2020
Wednesday, 11 December 2019
Books+Publishing editors Sarah Farquharson and Kelsey Oldham share the books they're most looking forward to reading in 2020. Sarah Farquharson: Like many others, I was beside myself to learn that...
What we’re reading in winter
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Sarah Farquharson: During the Easter break I read and loved Ashleigh Young’s collection of personal essays Can you Tolerate This? (Giramondo), so I’m looking forward to picking up a copy...
Editor’s picks: What we’re reading
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Andrew Wrathall: I enjoyed Claire G Coleman’s style of turning the narrative on its head to make readers see things from another perspective in Terra Nullius (Hachette), so I’m looking...
Editor’s picks
Tuesday, 30 October 2018
This issue, Andrew Wrathall is swept up in Beatlemania. While visiting a vintage shop in the Victorian countryside earlier this month, I was inspired to purchase a range of vinyl...
Editor’s picks: Blood-chilling and brain-expanding
Thursday, 30 August 2018
Andrew Wrathall’s spring reading list contains titles that are both blood-chilling and brain-expanding. Let’s start with some blood. Most humans contain between nine and 12 pints of it. In Nine...
Editor’s picks: The familiar and the new
Tuesday, 3 July 2018
Jackie Tang’s winter reading list contains titles that take a new approach to the familiar. It was difficult limiting this column to just winter releases; every day there’s news about...
Editor’s picks: 2018 highlights from the ‘Books+Publishing’ team
Thursday, 19 April 2018
Meet the B+P team. Jackie Tang, Andrew Wrathall and Sarah Farquharson share their top picks for the new year. Jackie Tang: I love reading about the underbelly of the food...
Editor’s picks: Summer reading
Monday, 23 October 2017
Jackie Tang rounds up her nonfiction highlights for the coming months. F*ck, sh*t … the compulsion to plop a naughty word with an attention-grabbing asterisk on the cover seems to...
Editor’s picks: Forthcoming Spring highlights
Monday, 17 July 2017
Jackie Tang shares her gift-giving guide for Christmas. Illustrious company The lead-up to Christmas is always an exciting time for children’s picture books, as publishers bring out particularly lush and...
Editor’s picks: Jackie Tang’s winter reads
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
There’s no discontent in sight as Jackie Tang highlights her picks for winter. Catherine Lacey’s second novel The Answers (Granta, July) is a surreal and penetrating psychological study of love...
Editor’s picks: Jackie Tang’s autumn reading list
Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Politics and prose take centre stage in Jackie Tang’s Autumn reading list. Here and now When Hachette first launched the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2015, the publisher received...
Editor’s picks: Translated titles
Thursday, 6 October 2016
The end of the year sees the arrival of several new translated titles. Andrea Hanke rounds up a selection for her editor’s picks. In November, Text is publishing a collection of...
Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s upcoming literary highlights
Friday, 8 July 2016
With new novels from ‘the Smiths’ and memoirs from Amy Schumer and her executive producer, there’s plenty to look forward to in the coming months, writes Andrea Hanke. Zadie Smith, Ali Smith,...
Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s winter reading list
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Girls, Roxane Gay and Neil Gaiman. Andrea Hanke’s editor’s picks are brought to you by the letter G. In an essay in the Paris Review about the inspiration for...
Editor’s picks: Andrea Hanke’s autumn reading list
Monday, 21 March 2016
Curtis Sittenfeld and Anne Tyler update Austen and Shakespeare in Andrea Hanke’s autumn reading list. Modern classics Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld (HarperCollins, May) is a modern retelling of Jane Austen’s...
