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HORACE BENT FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2016
21.10.16
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Olympia is in Pole position
It’s the final day of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016, and Horace Bent is rather bleary-eyed from the LBF stand party as he casts a final glance across the Messe . . .
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udging by the London Book Fair stand party, LBF 2017 is going to be a right old knees-up. The Guest of Honour—oops, excuse me, Market Focus . . . or is it Territory of the Moment? Country Whose Culture Ministry is Willing to Shell Out Oodles of Cash? Whatever it’s called, next year at Olympia, it’s Poland. Of course, Brexit may yet cast a pall
over proceedings. Many Poles have assuredly left the UK since, fleeing in fear of Oswald Mosley with a pint and a fag (Nigel Farage) and his mob of baying Brexiters; and Humfrey Hunter and his army of “how a post- Brexit Britain can thrive” manuscripts. Either that, or they finally came to the realisation that Poland is, well, in all likelihood just nicer. How to heal this rift? Through
books, of course! And at the LBF stand yesterday, for “books”, read vodka. Lots of it. My goodness, lots of it. Jacks Thomas toasted us with a hearty “na zdrowie!”; the Polish contingent’s leader Professor Krzysztof Koehler returned in kind, lifting his shot glass with a hearty “cheers!” . . . and British publishers struggled at the traditional game Name a Living Polish Author. At heart we are such a breed of monoglots, aren’t we? Though I am looking forward to Olympia next year, principally so that I can learn the names of many, many Polish writers—and I may well even remember one or two the following day as the vodka haze subsides.
BONNIER BON MOTS After the c.e.o. talk by Bonnier’s Jacob “charisma is my middle name” Dalborg, we had another big story
Richard Mollet at FBF yesterday
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STAFF they would be missing! theywould be missing!
“Christ, can you see the size of queue for the ladies’?”; “Look, I’m drinking a plastic cup of room-temperature white wine—and pretending to enjoy it!”; “See this salami sandwich? It’s the third (apparently) pork-based product I’ve eaten today.”
about the multinational firm’s British outpost in yesterday’s The Bookseller Daily. Yes, Bonnier UK has a new website. Hold. The. Freaking. Front. Page. Actually, it is rather
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cool and whizzy. The site, we reported somewhat
breathlessly, was “more user-
friendly, with improved navigation and functionality”. Indeed. But I think it is clear that the main brief to the designer read: we need far more Richard Johnson. That’s not all in terms of tech news from Bonnier UK. The big
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But surely the webcams would be put to best use were the Bonnier crew to take their laptops over to Hall 6.2—Stand C73, to be exact—to show the folks at home what happens if you yell: “Bonnier UK is the fourth-biggest publisher in the UK!” across the Pan Macmillan stand. Actually, the best way to consternate the Pan Mackers might be to say: “I’ve heard you’ve paid $8m for Elton John. That’s Schumer money! Are you off your Rocket, Man? It’s
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o a Sacrifice! A Candle in the Wind! Herren . . .
He’ll never deliver!” Bis nächste jahr, meinen Damen und en . . .
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