BookBrunch Special Reports

New for 2021, BookBrunch will be commissioning regular special reports to look at particular issues and areas of the book trade.

• Frankfurt Book Fair Briefcase 2021

  Rights

  Agents announce the top titles they will take to, or sell during, the Frankfurt Book Fair (20-24 October)
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• The BookBrunch Report: Publishers ponder the return to the office

  News - Interviews

  It’s back to the workplace – or is it? Julie Vuong takes a look at the current picture across the industry
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• The BookBrunch Report: Action for underrepresented writers – progressive or performative?

  News - Publishing

  Publishing initiatives to support authors from marginalised backgrounds may be on the rise, but will they effect long-term change? Julie Vuong investigates.
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• Lockdown publicity: the future of events

  News - Publishing

  The third in a three-part series exploring book and event publicity during lockdown
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• Lockdown publicity: how publicists handled events during the pandemic

  News - Publishing

  The second in a three-part series exploring book and event publicity during lockdown
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• Lockdown publicity: how publicists adapted during the pandemic

  News - Publishing

  The first of a three-part series exploring book and event publicity during lockdown
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• The BookBrunch Report: What authors want - and what the book trade can do

  News - Books

  Lack of government support, alongside loss of normal publicity and sales sources: many authors have been casualties of the pandemic. Meanwhile books sales in 2020 boomed....
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• The BookBrunch Report: Can book fairs lure back literary agents?

  News - Publishing

  Following our report on the future of books fairs earlier this year, Julie Vuong revisits the 'fluid situation' and asks: in the continued absence of in-person shows,...
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• 35 pioneering years at the Poetry Business

  Opinion - Publishing

  Creativity and change are key to any successful poetry publishing venture – just don't expect an easy life, as Tim Relf hears from the Poetry Business
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• The BookBrunch Report – Has 2020 levelled the playing field for independent publishers?

  News - Interviews

  Despite the obvious problems of publishing in a pandemic, the 'year like no other' has had some surprising benefits for Britain's smaller publishers
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