13th December 2024
Our expert
Will Smith Will is co-owner of Sam Read Bookseller, an independent bookshop in Grasmere that has served the Lake District for more than 130 years. He has more than two decades of experience in bookselling with previous roles at Blackwell’s and Ottakar’s. Will has been a judge for the Nero Book Awards, Costa Book Awards and the Nature Chronicles Prize, writes book reviews for Cumbria Life magazine and regularly appears on BBC Radio Cumbria.
Paperback Preview March
Previews
Strong fiction offering for spring ’25
With a healthy dose of debuts, as well as several film and TV-inspired reissues (from Slow Horses to On Swift Horses), March is gearing up to be a strong month for fiction paperbacks
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hile our book- shop is now full of festive custom and browsers are
keenly buying presents for themselves and others, the usual influx of March paperbacks on the horizon felt a bit less daunting than usual. Alongside my book- seller reading and the books submitted for the paperback preview this year, my local post- man has been weighed down further by the rafts of Nero Book Awards titles which I have the responsibility to judge. With novelist and critic Kevin Power and journalist Zoe West , I have been happily immersed in
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reading for the fiction award and it has been a brilliant experience all-round. The joy of the prize is that it keeps up a grand tradition of asking for different perspectives from across the book trade, includ- ing booksellers, celebrating great writing and books you simply want to press on people. By the time this appears, the shortlists will have been revealed and I am really look- ing forward to seeing the conversa- tions generated. I hope that same spirit is clear across the March preview, which had 400 submissions with some big titles across fiction and non-fiction. An enormous number of literary fiction titles and crime thrillers arrive with a defi- nite sense that
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Paperback Preview: March
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