Spiked Books

The London Book fair is a great place to visit. Today on its last day it was open to the public and that could be noticed in the increased amount of people wearing jeans and hovering around stands in the hope of getting a freebie. I was of course in the throngs of things as I managed to get DBC Pierre’s latest book. Having said that, the manic people interaction had shown no sign of giving up.

Apparently Canongate had their famous party last night and an empty Canongate stand at around 9.30 am seems to have suggested that the party was successful. Later on, glimpsing at the Best Stand Shell Award 2006, which yes was Canongate, the crowd of publishers, agents and god know who else, were queuing to chat with Jamie Byng (known for his revival of the company.)

I however was just roaming through this place. It would easily take almost 20 minutes to go from one end of the hall to the other. Over 450 over some of the rarest publishers you could ever imagine. The only reason I go on about Canongate is because I think they are coming out with some of the best stuff at the moment. And they are independent. I might add some of their homepages actually.

In terms of adding links. You can read some of the finest blogs from Ronaldinho to Owen. Michael Owen the great. Yup. I have not for a second, considered these guys to be actually writing their own stuff. It could be a good lesson in ghost writing though.
A picture of the Canongate stand, complete with pierced books to follow.
M.M.