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BENT’S NOTES AT THE LONDON BOOK FAIR 2015


29 The Red Wedding


HarperCollins’ soirée on the eve of the fair gathered the who’s who of publishing in one room—and The Bookseller’s diarist Horace Bent


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o to Ham House, the National Trust pile on the River Thames: home of


inbred aristos for centuries, now home of the annual HarperCollins LBF hootenanny. The great and the good (and agents) were rammed into the grand edifice. All had the same question on their lips—the same query that does the rounds at any HC do with boss Charlie Redmayne present—“Is Eddie here? No? Will Eddie be here any time soon?” Not last night,


my dears—but seeing Bookseller Industry Award winners Ann- Janine Murtagh and Nicholas Pearson in the flesh trumps a mere Oscar winner, to my mind. The main attraction? Many were


drawn to the Game of Thrones room, where the HBO/HC cash cow was on a loop on TVs. “Is that Gregor ‘The Mountain That Rides’ Clegane?” one party-goer gasped, seeing a man looming head and shoulders above the crowd


and thinking it might have been Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, who


plays the frightfully tall “Game of Thrones” baddie. “Oh, no, it’s just David Roth-Ey.” Kate Elton was there looking rather ebullient, perhaps basking in the glow of hooking Karin


Slaughter from PRH yesterday— the publishing equivalent of the Red Wedding, I suppose. (Made all the more painful by several “Welcome to Blighty”-type tweets to Slaughter from PRH UK staffers. Awks.)


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