The Ballad of the Five Marys - Donald Smith

Sometimes when you’re an intern at a publishing house you get questions that you really don’t know how to answer.  These are questions like: “How are you finding your time here?”, “Would it be okay if I asked you to do...” and “Isn’t this cover that I designed fabulous?” which all have very nice and easy answers.  You say: “It’s great, I’m having an amazing time”, “Of course, nothing would please me more” and “It’s beautiful!” and to be honest most of the time you are being...

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Animal Lover - Raymond Friel

My reading choices in the last few weeks may seem a little eclectic, they certainly have seemed that way to me!  The reason for this mix of different book styles is that I am currently doing a lot of internships at various different publishing houses and a large part of most of these is reading.  A LOT of reading!  Some of what I have read has been good, some not so but that I suppose...

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'S' - JJ Abrams and Doug Dorst

We are always told not to judge a book by its cover.  This is sometimes given as a fairly broad piece of advice telling us not to judge things upon face value or on a purely aesthetic level, and on other occasions it is much more simply that, just because a publisher hired a talented cover artist, it does not necessarily follow that the author has actual talent and/or readability.  This...

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13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson

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A Captain's Duty - Richard Philips and Stephen Talty

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A Pleasure and a Calling - Phil Hogan

There are many authors for whom I would move heaven and earth to meet.  If, for example, I heard that Jo Rowling, John Green or Bernard Cornwall were speaking at an event near me, wild horses could not keep me from rushing there like the deluded fanboy that I am.  For the great majority of other authors whose books I like, I’d also love to meet them, but I wouldn’t be super disappointed...

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Unholy Night - Seth Grahame-Smith

Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 ‘Akin to fusing Game of Thrones with the Gospel of St Luke’. It is this quote that persuaded me to pick Unholy Night off the shelf.  Now there are two problems right from the get-go...

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