Monthly Archives: April 2011

Peasenhall recommends a good book

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Kelvin Smith

When chat show host Jack Harris dies, his old friend David is commissioned to write a biography. The publisher is also an old friend, Caroline Bliss, “editorial director of Maypole Books, A Division of Something Nasty”. At Maypole Books they … Continue reading →

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What publishers do for love

Posted on April 25, 2011 by Kelvin Smith

There is a delicate publishing leitmotif in Lisa Appignanesi’s The Things We Do For Love. Tessa Hughes works at the ‘Press’ in Cambridge “and within a few months” of marrying Stephen Caldwell, a geneticist at Trinity College, she “had been … Continue reading →

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A Herring Connection

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Kelvin Smith

In the latest of L.C.Tyler’s Elsie and Ethelred Mysteries, The Herring in the Library, the obscure crime-writer and his agent are embroiled in the death of Sir Robert “Shagger” Muntham. While Ethelred’s publisher does does not appear in the plot, … Continue reading →

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Publishing and Power

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Kelvin Smith

The unexpected use of “good Anglo-Saxon names” makes the characters like people “you meet in the street”, and adds to the tension and terror in Thomas Keneally’s The Tyrant’s Novel. Here a writer from an unnamed country calling himself Alan … Continue reading →

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