Too Many Books
By Publicity Manager, Ruth Warburton
One of the best things about working in publishing is also one of the worst things. Free books.
It’s pretty incredible to me, still, that I work in a place surrounded by so many books and that I am allowed to, you know, just read them. Books don’t grow on trees you know! Except once upon a time they did. And here they still do - metaphorically. You can just reach out and… pluck! A bitter-sweet Lisa Moore. A plump, ripe Nigella Lawson. A crisp and chilly Karin Fossum. A vintage Peter Ackroyd (an excellent year, 2010.)
Just now, coming up to the autumn bumper crop, the shelves are groaning. And like a landlord who goes into the trade because he loves the taste of beer, then finds that the proximity of the beer pump is a little dangerous, working in a publishers I have developed something of a problem. Too many books.