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Horace Bent At LBF 2019
Bent's Notes Horace Bent @horacebent
In the final London Book Fair before the UK departs the European Union, foreign visitors may want to prepare their answers to a few persistent queries...
The Road to a Brexit book fair beckons
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elcome to the last London Book Fair before Brexit, foreign publishers and agents, and your old pal Horace has the same queries that have undoubtedly been asked of you by every British person you’ve met at the fair: “Do you have any food 0r medicine?” To our US visitors, in particular: “Do you have any spare firearms?” (I assume you’ve been able to bring them through customs because you only give them up if someone pried them from your cold, dead hands.) Actually, you Americans are sure to have a ready supply of OxyContin for us, aren’t you? Anyway, we need such things as we are stockpiling and building our bunkers for the coming Brexi-caplypse; you’ll see a different landscape at LBF 2020, namely one that will make Cormac McCarthy’s The Road seem like Ruth Hogan-esque “up-lit”. By the way, in that The Road end-of-days scenario, I think we all know who among the book trade (publishers, booksellers, agents) will be become the cannibals. Aſter all, one of your number is named The Jackal.
But let us have some fun this LBF n this LBF
In tomorrow’s magazine Horace continues his London Book Fair odyssey by looking back at a colourful—red, white and rosé—first day at Olympia
10 12th March 2019
before it all goes up in flames, eh? So to Home House last night for the annual hot and sweat HarperCollins knees- up, to ask the question on everybody’s lips: “Is Dan Mallory here?” I didn’t see him, which was just as well because if he was drinking from a plastic cup, I did not want to know what was in there. The luminous Karin Slaughterte who worked with Mallory before he morphed into A J Finn, was in Da House, though. Want to see some fireworks today? Shuffle over to The Podcast Theatre for Slaughter’s event and ask
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KARIN SLAUGHTER’S EVENT TODAY COULD BE ONE TO WATCH...
what she thinks about the ethics of the New Yorker’s Mallory piece. Usually there is plent of star power, glitz and glamour in the aisles of Olympia: I mean, there are even Nibbie winners among us. But this LBF has a litle Oscars magic: badger-haired rocker Brian May will be on hand with his London Stereoscopic Company (Stand: 6E70) selling r
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Want to see some fireworks today? Shuffle over to Te Podcast Teatre and ask Karin Slaughter what she thinks about the New Yorker’s Mallory piece...
LAMBERT, CEMENTING THE LATE FREDDIE MERCURY’S LEGACY
BRIAN MAY LEFT AND ADAM
DAN MALLORY: WOULD HE APPEAR AT HARPER’S ANNUAL LBF KNEES-UP?
Bryan Singe off set...) I don’t know how much time May will have for meet and greets, though: he’s chocka with 30-minute back-to-backs, but I hear he might be able squeeze you in at 4.30 p.m. on Thursday, between the Blanvalet sales director and the Shanghai Peo the Shanghai People’s Press head of rights. By the way, wasn’t it lovely seeing Queen perform at the Oscars with new singer Adam Lambert? Didn’t it make you really appreciate just how talented Freddie Mercury was?
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