About BookBrunch

BookBrunch is a daily news service and information site for the book industry. Joint editors Nicholas Clee and Neill Denny have nearly 50 years of covering the book trade between them. BookBrunch's news coverage reflects their knowledge and experience, and over 7,500 corporate and individual subscribers make BookBrunch their daily destination for publishing industry news. BookBrunch was founded in 2008 by Nicholas Clee and Liz Thomson.  


Nicholas Clee, joint editor, was editor of the Bookseller from 1999 to 2004, and before that was the paper's book news editor (1984-1999). He has written about books and the book industry for the Times, Guardian, Observer, Times Literary Supplement, and NewBooks magazine, and has been contributing editor of the Publishers Association Statistics Yearbook. He has been food columnist for the New Statesman, and has also written for the Observer Sports Monthly. He has been a judge of the Booker Prize, Encore Award, Granta Best of Young British Novelists, and Crime Writers' Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He has been chair of the Book Society and of the Biographers' Club, and a committee member of the Society of Authors. His books are Don't Sweat the Aubergine: What Works in the Kitchen and Why (Short Books, 2nd edition from Black Swan in 2012); Eclipse: The Story of the Rogue, the Madam and the Horse That Changed Racing (Bantam Press; Overlook US); a memoir, Things I Am Ashamed Of (Kindle Singles, 2014); and a work of lit crit, The Booker and the Best (Kindle Singles, 2018).

He can be contacted on nick@bookbrunch.co.uk or mobile 44 (0) 7949 594093.


Neill Denny, joint editor, is a business journalist with over 25 years' experience, covering publishing, retail and advertising at the highest level. As Editor-in-Chief of the Bookseller for eight years from 2004 he had a ring-side seat as the book trade grappled with the switch to digital, the impact of the recession and the decline of the traditional bookshop. Prior to the Bookseller he edited Retail Week, the trade bible for Britain's top retailers, for five years. At both the Bookseller and Retail Week he was regularly brought in as a specialist commentator by national press and TV. In the 1990s he covered the marketing industry on titles including Marketing and Precision Marketing and founded the magazine Marketing Director for Michael Heseltine's Haymarket in 1995. After leaving the Bookseller, Neill worked as a freelancer, interviewing authors such as Antony Beevor and Bernard Cornwell, and as a retail and web consultant.

He can be contacted on neill.denny@bookbrunch.co.uk, mobile 44 (0) 7802 814295; home 020 8393 7837.

Lucy Nathan, reporter, is a writer, journalist and bookseller based in North London. She has an MA in Creative Writing: Novels from City University and has worked in education, PR and media. She is currently writing a novel.

She can be contacted at lucy.nathan@bookbrunch.co.uk. 


Jo Henry, managing director, has worked in the book industry for over 40 years, starting at the literary agency A.M Heath before joining the publishers Victor Gollancz, where she became sales director in 1989. She joined the the research agency Book Marketing Ltd. In 1994 and, when the company was acquired by the trade magazine Publishing News, became MD of the PN group. When Publishing News ceased operations, BML was acquired by Nielsen where she became VP of Insight and Analytics, leaving there to join BookBrunch in 2018. She was co-founder of the Book Marketing Society and a former chair of both the Book Society and the Book Trade Charity.

She can be contacted on jo.henry@bookbrunch.co.uk.


Eric Green, ceo of BookBrunch, has worked in the book industry for over 25 years. His executive responsibilities include Managing Director of BDS Digital, a company which he co-founded in 1994, and Managing Director of West10, a trading division within BDS. Eric's areas of responsibility include IT and finance. Eric sits on a number of committees related to the book trade and undertakes IT consultancy work.