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TOUR THROUGH THE GOURMET GALLERY


What’s cooking?


This is the third year in which FBF has run its dedicated cookbook rights-trading area/ demonstration kitchens, the Gourmet Gallery, in conjunction with Gourmand International, backer of the annual


World Cookbook Awards and foodie publishing


Today, 9.30 a.m. ? Room Dimension, Hall 4.2


fairs in Paris and Beijing. This year, a record 81 companies from 30


FBF AUDIOBOOK CONFERENCE


All ears for inaugural FBF conference on audio


You may have heard that audio is, as Derek Zoolander might say, “so hot right now”. Or perhaps “roaring” is the appropriate term. At any rate, FBF has responded with its first Frankfurt Audiobook Conference, a half-day hootenanny of panels and seminars. Kicking it off is a keynote from Michele Cobb from the US Audio Publishers Association, who will give an overview of the sector around the globe, from the world-leading US market (sales were around $2.5bn in 2017 in the US, an almost-30% increase), to territories whose consumers are just getting into the audio boom. The different distribution models, from streaming to bundling, will be looked at by Bookwire’s John Ruhrmann above, while there will be particular country focuses on India, Russia and China.


£2.5bn 30%


Value of audiobook sales in the US in 2017, according to the US Audio Publishers Association


Growth in the audiobook market year on year in the US in 2017


THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION


Shamsie and Prior talk women’s writing prizes


Today, 1 p.m. ? International Stage, Hall 5.1 A128


countries will exhibit in the space. Those curious about the global cookery market (or folk looking for some free food samples) can join Gourmand


boss Édouard Cointreau for a tour around the gallery each day of FBF starting at noon. The


marquee guest today is the heavy metal-loving popular celebrity chef Stefan Marquard (think of a Teutonic Hairy Biker) who will be cooking and promotion his book,


Kuche Rockt! (“Cooking Rocks!”), at 4 p.m. in the Show Kitchen.


Today, 5 p.m. Today, 12 p.m. ? Info Booth, Hall 3.1 L137 D ? Business Club, Foyer Hall 4.0


o you want to meet the c.e.o.s, superagents and heads of houses of the


future? Ten sidle over to the Young Talent Reception. Young Talent is the FBF-backed


scheme which, in partnership with trade journals and publishers and booksellers associations across the world, recognises the next generation of movers and shakers in the book trade. We should note, underscore and shout from the rooftops that the initiative has been based on


After the Booker, the Women’s Prize for Fiction is the UK’s most prestigious literary gong. There has been some change recently, with the award’s funding model rejigged aſter Baileys pulled out as its main sponsor. Yet the award has arguably experienced an even greater profile due to cultural forces such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements. The 2018 winner, Kamila Shamsie


right, will talk about the origin and importance of the prize—and what winning it can mean to an author’s career—with Joanna Prior, m.d. of Penguin General UK and chair of the prize’s board. Let’s hope Shamsie can run as fast as Usain Bolt: she is on the Female Writing in Asia Pacific panel, with Indonesian author Laksmi Pamuntjak and Philippines-based agent Andrea Pasion- Flores in the new Agora Pavilion at noon today, which is scheduled to end just as this talk begins.


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Te Bookseller’s original Rising Stars list, launched in 2011. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Flying the flag for Britain at this


year’s reception is Sophie Jonathan above, who was Te Bookseller’s Shooting Star in 2018—the Rising Star who is given a little bit of extra recog- nition. Te Picador senior commis- sioning editor has had an astonishing run of signing zeitgeisty début fiction lately, from the likes of Sharlene Teo, Megan Hunter and Elizabeth Macneal. She heads up Picador’s classics list, too, and has had a hit in 2018 by republishing Fran Ross’ satirical 1974 look at race, Oreo.


UK TCM sales to date, across print editions, of Kamila Shamsie’s Women’s Prize-winning novel Home Fire


YOUNG TALENT RECEPTION


Rising stars of global book trade thrust into the limelight


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