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London Book Fair Preview Tuesday 14th – Thursday 16th April 2015
FAIR RETURN
The London Book Fair returns to a revamped Olympia Publishing for Digital Minds
The London Book Fair
Monday 13th April: 09:00 – 18:00
Tuesday 14th April: 09:00 – 18:30 Wednesday 15th April: 09:00 – 18:30 Thursday 16th April: 09:00 – 17:00
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A WEEK OF EVENTS FOR BOOK LOVERS… 13-19 APRIL 2015
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Transportation to the London Book Fair, Olympia London, Hammersmith Rd, W14 8UX TRAINS
Olympia London has a dedicated rail station–Kensington (Olympia) which is served by London Overground and national rail networks. Please be aware that the District Line from Kensington (Olympia) will NOT be running during the Fair. However, a further five Underground lines are connected only a short walk away. A special bus service for Fair attendees will run from Earls Court tube station to Olympia. Overground: Kensington (Olympia) is on the London Overground network; one stop away from Shepherd’s Bush (Central Line) or West Brompton (District Line). Piccadilly Line: Hammersmith station is a 15 minute walk away. Hammersmith & City Line: Hammersmith station is a 5 minute bus ride or 15 minute walk away. Circle Line: Hammersmith station is a 5 minute bus ride or 15 minute walk away. High Street Kensington is a 4 minute bus ride or 12 minute walk away.
Bus routes
The following buses all stop within a very short walking distance of Olympia. 9: runs from Aldwych to Hammersmith (south) and Hammersmith to Aldwych (north).There is also a night bus route–N9. 10: runs from Kings Cross to Hammersmith (south) and Hammersmith to Kings Cross (north).There is also a night bus route–N10–that extends to Richmond (south). 27: runs from Chalk Farm toTurnham Green (south) and Turnham Green to Chalk Farm (north).This bus runs 24 hours a day. 28: runs from Kensal Rise to Wandsworth (south) and Wandsworth to Kensal Rise (north).There is also a night bus route–N28–that extends to CamdenTown (north). 49: runs from White City to Clapham Junction (south) and Clapham Junction to White City (north).
District Line: West Brompton is a 5 minute walk away. Alternatively West Kensington is an 8 minute walk away, and High Street Kensington is a 4 minute bus ride or 12 minute walk away.
391: runs from Fulham to Richmond (south) and Richmond to Fulham (north).
For further London Underground Travel Information call +44 (0)20 7222 1234 or visit: www.tfl.gov.uk.
For driving routes and more travel information visit: www.londonbookfair.co.uk/venue-travel/events/.
PARKING
Parking is available at Olympia and we strongly advise booking in advance to guarantee a space. A limited number of first-come, firstserved bays are available and charged at a 2-hourly tariff.
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To pre-book your parking please call +44 (0) 20 7598 2515 between 09.00–17.00, Monday to Friday, or visit the Olympia website and book online. Please be aware of the Congestion Zone when driving. ■
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Get ready for the London Book Fair Nicholas Clee, Editor, BookBrunch It is hard to believe that, many years ago, some people would wonder what the London Book Fair (LBF) was for. Now the Fair is a firmly established, indispensable element of the international book industry scene, perennially fixed in every serious book professional’s diary–as is entirely appropriate in a city that is a vibrant cultural hub, and in a country that is top of the league table in book export earnings. The London Book Fair returns to Olympia this year, up the road from its previous home in Earls Court, and still within easy reach of the hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues of the West End. Visitors who have enjoyed preview tours of Olympia have been excited by the results of a £30m revamp that has enhanced the natural light at the venue, with its spectacular, barrel-vaulted roof. The International Rights Centre, always a key part of Fair activity, has its own entrance on Hammersmith Road but is also close to the rest of the action, and accessible from the show floor. The Publishing for Digital Minds Conference has moved too, from the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre to the Olympia Conference Centre, but retains its slot as the prelude (on Monday 13th April) to the Fair, and as always has an eclectic, high-calibre cast. Journalist Charles Arthur promises an objective review of Amazon; author David Nicholls will discuss the place of social media and writing for different platforms; Mashable, The Drum and Ogilvy & Mather will identify trends; Simon Andrews from Addictive will talk about one of the digital holy grails, mobile; and a question time session chaired by Richard Mollet of the Publishers Association will feature Charlie Redmayne (HarperCollins), Mandy Hill (CUP) and Andrew Barker (Liverpool UP) giving perspectives from trade, education and academic publishing respectively. An increasingly important theme of the Fair is the role of books and publishing in the wider cultural and business landscape. Among the new events in which LBF is involved is London Book & ScreenWeek, seven days of events celebrating books and the films,TV programmes and virtual worlds they have inspired. A Creative Industries Day onThursday 16th April
will bring to the Fair visitors, speakers and delegations from the worlds of film, interactive games and app developers. Also new to the Fair this year is a scholarly conference, Access All Areas: Global Trends in Research and Scholarly Publishing (Wednesday 15th April). What does not change is that the Fair caters to every possible interest, with more than 250 seminars in all. David Nicholls is an outstanding representative of the theme of books and other media, having written novels including the bestsellers One Day and Us, screen adaptations including Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and original screenplays. He is Author of the Day on 13th April, and will be followed by Deborah Moggach, who has similar credentials (14th April); Valeria Luiselli (15th April); and former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne (16th April). Mary Berry, the nation’s favourite cook, will open the Fair. Also sure to attract interest is the second International Awards, for which a strong set of contenders is competing. Peter Usborne is the entirely deserving recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award. Valeria Luiselli is part of the Mexican delegation at the Fair, where Mexico is the Market Focus country. ■
“Among the new events in which LBF is involved is London Book and Screen Week, seven days of events celebrating books and the films… they have inspired.”
To contact London Book Fair Daily at the Fair with your news, visit us on the Publishers Weekly stand 6C91. Reporting for BookBrunch by Nicholas Clee and Liz Thomson Reporting for Publishers Weekly by Andrew Albanese, Rachel Deahl, Calvin Reid and Jim Milliot Project Management: Joseph Murray Layout and Production: Heather McIntyre Editorial Co-ordinator (UK): Marian Sheil Tankard Project Management for Preview: Tobias Steed Layout and Production: Heather McIntyre
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Publishing for Digital Minds Monday 13th April Publishing for Digital Minds, now established as the prelude to the London Book Fair (LBF), continues to evolve, this year having staged its own prelude in the form of a virtual event on digital developments worldwide. Around the World in 8 Hours took place on 18th March across Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Plus. It began with a blog tour in China, and moved to Australia for a live Google Hangout with HarperCollins Australia CEO James Kellow.Twitter chats in India featured Thomas Abraham, MD of Hachette India; Hemali Sodhi, Director of Penguin Random House India’s children’s division; and author Amish Tripathi. A Malaysian stop starred Amir Muhammed, CEO of Buku Fixi. A LinkedIn leg in Germany included Klaus Renkl and Christian Scheidermann of ebook platform Tolino, and publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart. A Market Focus session focused on Mexico, and the event concluded with aTwitter Q&A with Dominique Raccah, CEO of Source Books. At the conference itself, taking place on Monday 13th April, there will be keynote speeches from author David
Nicholls; Rob Newlan, Head of Facebook Creative Shop in EMEA; and Hannah Telfer, Group Director for Consumer and Digital Development of Penguin Random House UK. The Chair will be John Mitchinson, co-founder of Unbound, with Deputy Chair Sam Missingham of HarperCollins. Further speakers and panellists include HarperCollins CEO Charlie Redmayne, Publishers Association CEO Richard Mollet, Edward Humphrey of the British Film Institute, Nathan Hull of Mofibo, and Javier Celaya and Elisa Yuste of Dosdoce. Andy Oakes, Head of Content for the marketing trends bible The Drum, will appear in the Effective Content Strategies panel, which will take a closer look at what publishers can learn from the content and search engine marketers. He will be joined by two sector experts, Sonja Jefferson (Virtual Content) and Dan Smales (Lion Digital). Simon Andrews, founder of mobile marketing agency Addictive, will deliver a session on mobile strategies. The Conference will also throw the spotlight on the opportunities facing a new breed of digital publishers and micro-publishers. ■
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The Publishing for Digital Minds Conference is the perfect pre-cursor to LBF itself, gathering leaders from the digital publishing industry under one roof for a day of education, networking and knowledge sharing. The recent virtual stream, 18 March, saw 17.8 million impressions world-wide, a reach of over 850,000 on Twitter with over 300 contributors from over 160 locations around the globe. If this is the impact a single, virtual stream can have just imagine what the full conference will be like.
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London Book & Screen Week 13th–19th April The London Book Fair (LBF) is broadening its showcase of the economic and cultural value of books beyond Olympia with the inaugural London Book & Screen Week (LBSW) with Weidenfeld & Nicolson, seven days of events straddling the Fair itself (14th–16th April). LBF is pitching the Week (13th–19th April) as “the capital’s biggest ever celebration of books, and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they’ve inspired”. LBSW takes place in partnership with London & Partners, which is the official promotional partner of the city. Author Kate Mosse said: “London Book & Screen Week is a wonderful, inspired idea–it’s the perfect opportunity to galvanise the global creative community and bring all kinds of storytelling together.” And literary agent Luigi Bonomi was similarly enthusiastic: “The creation of London Book & Screen Week is genius. Building on the fabulous position that London has as a global leader in culture, creativity and knowledge, the London Book Fair is leveraging its market-leading position in books and creativity to reach out beyond the publishing industry to consumers and creators.” The events during the week include a new
writers’ evening at Foyles (13th); a Guardian Masterclass on dystopian fiction (14th); novelist and screenwriter Deborah Moggach in conversation (14th); a Mad Hatter’s tea party with former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne (18th); and an In Conversation and screening with John Banville and Stephen Brown, director of Banville’s Man Booker-winning novel The Sea (19th). Zanine Adams of London & Partners said: “We are delighted to add London Book & Screen Week to our calendar of superb offerings. This great initiative will attract people from London, the UK and beyond to our city to experience wonderful moments of creative inspiration, further enhancing London’s reputation as the leading city in the world for culture.” ■
“The capital’s biggest ever celebration of books, and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they’ve inspired”
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Research & Scholarly Publishing Wednesday 15th April
A new scholarly forum at the London Book Fair will enable professionals in scholarly and research publishing to gain insights into the latest developments in their field. Access All Areas: Global Trends in Research and Scholarly Publishing, taking place at the Olympia Conference Centre on the morning of Wednesday 15th April, is a collaboration between the LBF, the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), and the Publishers Association (PA). It will feature four sessions facilitated byToby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD, and Alicia Wise, Director of Access and Policy at Elsevier. The sponsor is Publishers Communication Group, a division of PublishingTechnology. The sessions are: • Walls come tumbling down: what happens to academic and scholarly publishing when digital removes physical barriers?, chaired by Audrey McCulloch of ALPSP; • Mind the gap: how can we learn from different cultures to do business successfully and seek new opportunities?, chaired by Richard Mollet of the PA; • Where does all the money go?, and how do different international approaches to funding higher education and research affect institutions and publishers?, chaired by Toby Green; and • MINT or BRICS? How do other countries approach academic and scholarly research, what are the incentives, and which are the emerging domestic markets to watch?, chaired by Alicia Wise. McCulloch said: “If you work in scholarly or research publishing, now, more than ever, connecting with international peers is essential for staying up-to-date with the latest global trends. Access all Areas will help you do this and we are delighted to be involved in this new initiative with LBF and the PA.” ■
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The cost (with lunch and free entrance to the Fair) is £149 plus VAT, with a delegate rate of £99 for members from ALPSP and the PA.
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WHAT WORKS?
Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies
THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015
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Thursday 16th April The third edition of What Works? Successful Education Policies, Resources and Technologies will commence with two keynote speakers. Andrew Fong, Marshall Cavendish Education (Singapore) will provide the first keynote on Singapore as a best-practice example of educational resource development, followed by Luis Benveniste, World Bank (USA) on the World Bank’s view on the provision of funding for learning resources around the world. At a time, the run-up to a general election, when education will be a contentious issue in the UK, the conference brings together international experts to debate how policy, technology and content may be best applied to raise educational standards. What Works is staged by the International Publishers Association (IPA), the UK Publishers Association, and the London Book Fair, and takes place at Olympia on Thursday 16th April. Topics for discussion include the value of edutainment and gamification, if educational publishers or governments are best placed to commission educational content, and how education systems can successfully adapt to the digital world. The panellists include Wouter van Tol, Corporate Citizenship Director, Europe, Samsung (UK); Professor Eva Matthes, Augsburg University (Germany); Gino Roncaglia, Senior Research Fellow, University of Viterbo “La Tuscia” (Italy); Jo Twist, CEO UKie (UK Interactive Entertainment) (UK); Richard Charkin, Executive Director, Bloomsbury Publishing (UK); Jay Diskey, Chair, IPA Educational Publishers Forum (USA); and Graham Taylor, The Long Game (UK). Jose Borghino, Policy Director at the IPA, said that round the world, “Politicians, international agencies and technology companies are all making their own interventions, usually involving the use of consumer technologies and the internet in schools. The challenge is to work through the diversity of possible solutions and find the best fit.” ■
“Everyone concerned with education is trying to improve the result, but what combination of policy, pedagogy, content and technology works best?”
The standard rate is £399 plus VAT, with a not-for-profit and public sector rate of £99 plus VAT.
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Creative Industries Day Thursday 16th April A Creative Industries Day at the London Book Fair (LBF) on Thursday, 16th April is a further move on the part of the Fair to enhance opportunities for publishers to network with professionals from other creative industries. The Day will bring to the Fair visitors, speakers and delegations from the worlds of film, interactive, games and app developers, as well as publishers of comics and graphic novels. They will be there to share their expertise on how intellectual property can be extended into new areas of the media, and to meet publishing counterparts to discuss opportunities for collaboration. The Day will be an umbrella for events including the Children’s Media Conference (CMC) Rights Exchange, which connects children’s publishers with multimedia developers and producers at pre-booked meetings and at seminars. Greg Childs, CMC Editorial Director, said: “The CMC Rights Exchange was developed [the inaugural event took place in November 2014] as a direct result of demand from children’s publishers and television/ multimedia producers for a meeting place where they could build new partnerships around children’s IP. So it’s particularly pleasing to be able to bring the Rights Exchange concept to the heart of the international publishing community at the London Book Fair.” Other cross-media activities during the Day as well as throughout the Fair include: • Brand licensing lounge and LIMA programme–LIMA, the trade association for the brand licensing industry, will curate a series of seminars. • Film and TV producers’ delegation (in partnership with Boudica Films)–a networking schedule designed to augment links between the film and publishing communities. • MIPJUNIOR–LBF is renewing its partnership with MIPJUNIOR, the world’s largest and most important
“The Day will bring to the Fair visitors, speakers and delegations from the worlds of film, interactive, games and app developers, as well as publishers of comics and graphic novels.”
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showcase for children’s programming in 2015. Publishers attending LBF will benefit from a special rate for the event in autumn 2015 in Cannes, and MIPJUNIOR will be at Olympia. • Gaming@LBF in partnership with UKie–The gaming pavilion returns, twice the size, for a second year. It includes an interactive theatre with panels and showcases from cutting-edge games creators. • Graphic Novels@LBF in partnership with SEQUENTIAL–LBF is partnering with the iPad graphic novel app SEQUENTIAL to provide, for the first time, a dedicated pavilion for comics and graphic novels. There will also be seminars featuring leading figures from the comics and graphic novels world. A star attraction will be SEQUENTIAL’s enhanced digital version of Posy Simmonds’ acclaimed graphic novel True Love. Russell Willis, the founder of SEQUENTIAL, said, “We’re delighted to be working with the London Book Fair. SEQUENTIAL’s aim is to expand the market for graphic novels via the digital presentation and distribution of the best examples of the form, and this fits perfectly with LBF’s decision to recognise the growth and exciting potential of comics and graphic novels with this new Pavilion.” • BAFTA Rocliffe–LBF renews its association with the BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum through a competition aimed at supporting emerging screenwriting talent for children’s media.The winner will receive a trip to MIPJUNIOR. • Curtis Brown event: Differences in adapting for film, TV,TV and games–experts will explore the essential qualities of a successful cross-media adaptation. Curtis Brown and LBF collaborated last year on the London Writers Fair, a day of seminars and talks at Foyles enabling aspiring writers to mingle with industry insiders. • The Social Network: YouTubers, vloggers and bloggers–Suddenly in demand from publishers following the successes of Alfie Deyes and Zoe Sugg, vloggers and bloggers will attend the Fair to film content, blog about their experiences of LBF, and network with the publishing industry and one another. Their dedicated lounge will host a matchmaking service for publishers and content creators interested in entering the world of publishing. Jacks Thomas, LBF Director, said: “The publishing industry proves itself again and again to be flexible and intent on taking every advantage of creative approaches to content. With the enabling short cuts of digital advances, the opportunities to exploit IP and to discover the full potential of content–whether coming from books or being adapted into books from other media–is immense.” ■
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Lifetime Achievement Award An event devoted to international trading could not give its Lifetime Achievement Award to a more deserving recipient than Peter Usborne. Usborne Publishing, the children’s firm he founded 42 years ago, earns more than half of its roughly £60m turnover in export sales. It has signed translation deals in more Peter Usborne than 100 languages, and has overseas imprints in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Brazil, and Korea. “We believe Usborne may be the most successful book publisher in the world when it comes to overseas marketing,” Peter Usborne has written in an article for BookBrunch. “All Usborne books... are designed from the outset to be saleable in virtually every country in the world.” Usborne publishes in all areas of children’s publishing, and has often found its greatest successes in areas–
“My work is my hobby”
sticker books and activity books are examples–that other houses have neglected or entered with less commitment. “We look at the dusty corners of children’s book publishing that are neglected by people looking for the next JK Rowling,” Peter Usborne has said. The Usborne Foundation is a charity devoted to literacy projects, and Peter Usborne is Patron of READ International, which sends books to schools in Tanzania. In 2011, he was made an MBE. Usborne himself, in the second half of his 70s, shows no signs of slowing down. He founded his firm after being involved in the setting up of Private Eye and after working for a spell at Macdonald, then part of the British Printing Corporation. Like all the most successful publishers, he is entirely devoted to his calling. “My work is my hobby,” he has said. He becomes the 11th recipient of the LBF Lifetime Achievement Award. Before him, the winners since 2010 have been the literary agent Deborah Rogers (2014), Michael Kruger of Carl Hanser Verlag (2013), Jorge Harralde of Editorial Anagrama (2012), Sonny Mehta of Knopf (2011), and Antoine Gallimard of Editions Gallimard (2010). ■
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Mexico Market Focus The Cultural Programme is one of the busiest ever In addition to Valeria Luiselli, London Book Fair (LBF) Author of the day on Wednesday 15th April, 10 Mexican authors will be delegates to the LBF 2015 Market Focus Cultural Programme, organised with the British Council and Conaculta (The National Council for Culture and Arts in Mexico). Among them are journalist and author Elena Poniatowska, winner of the Cervantes Prize 2014, as well as critic and essayist Enrique Krauze, who collaborated with Octavio Paz on the magazine Vuelta. Lydia Cacho, described by Amnesty International as “perhaps Mexico’s most famous investigative journalist and women’s rights advocate”, and Francisco Hinojosa, the inaugural Latin American Children’s Laureate, will also take part. Roger Bartra, Carmen Boullosa, Tedi López Mills, Pedro Serrano, Juan Villoro, and Jorge Volpi complete the group.The UK writers who will join them at events include Gaby Wood, SJ Fowler, Bidisha, Owen Sheers, and Michael Schmidt – the last named being the Mexican-born author and publisher at Carcanet. The Cultural Programme at LBF is a key part of theYear of the UK in Mexico and the Year of Mexico in the UK, a
12-month celebration of cultural, educational and business exchange between the two countries. Events will also take place in partnership with the British Library, English PEN, the British Centre for LiteraryTranslation, Free Word Centre, London Review Bookshop, Rich Mix, the Southbank, Saison Poetry Library, Litro Magazine, Modern Poetry inTranslation, Wales PEN Cymru, the University of Cardiff, Wahaca Soho and the Hay Festival. Hay will host Laia Jufresa, Brenda Lozano and Daniel Saldana, three of the authors from a forthcoming anthology, México20 (Pushkin, April). The UK will be Guest of Honour at the 2015 Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) in Guadalajara, Mexico (28th November–6th December), and is taking its participation seriously enough to hire a leading architectural firm, Carmody Groarke, to design the UK pavilion. At the Publishers Association international conference last autumn, delegates heard that the Mexican book market was estimated to be worth $450m, with publishers headquartered in Spain accounting for about 45% of that figure. Sales are growing: the Spanish book market, once 10 times bigger than Mexico’s, is now just five times the size. ■
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Local Restaurants There are of course plenty of places to eat within or right next to Olympia, among them various sandwich bars and a Pizza Express. If you’d like to step outside the venue for a meal, here are some well-regarded local restaurants. The Hand and Flower
The Bird in Hand
1 Hammersmith Road, London W14 8XJ
88 Masbro Road, Brook Green, Kensington, London W14 0LR
Tel 020 7371 4105 Email: handandflower@fullers.co.uk
Tel 020 7371 2721 Email: hello@tbihl.com
http://www.handandflower.co.uk/
http://thebirdinhandlondon.com/
“Never had a bad meal there,” one Trip Advisor reviewer writes of
A bar and restaurant in a converted pub, serving Italian and
this pub. About £15 a head.
other European dishes in small plates for diners to share. Prices
Karma 44 Blythe Road, West Kensington, London W14 0HA
per dish range from £3.50 (baby gem salad) to £13.50 (Parma ham pizza).
Tel 020 7602 9333
The Belvedere
http://karma-westkensington.co.uk/
Holland Park, Abbotsbury Rd, London W8 6LU
Menu includes dishes from all round India, including the south.
Tel 020 7602 1238 Email: Sales@whitestarline.org.uk
Main courses at about £10.
http://www.belvedererestaurant.co.uk/Home.html
Pentolina
Modern European dining in a 17th-century summer ballroom in Holland Park. Main courses include bouillabaisse (£22.95), assiette
71 Blythe Road, London W14 0HP
of pork (cheek, belly, fillet) with pomme puree (£22.95), and
Tel 020 3010 0091
aubergine parmigiana (£16.95).
http://www.pentolinarestaurant.co.uk/ “Classic Italian home cooking”,in a cosy setting. Main courses, including
Whits
vegetarian, pasta, fish and meat dishes, from £12.50 to £19.50.
21 Abingdon Road, Kensington, London W8 6AH
Society
Tel 020 7938 1122 http://www.whits.co.uk/
Hilton London Olympia, 380 Kensington High Street W14 8NL
Email through website: http://www.whits.co.uk/index.php/contact-us
Tel 020 7603 3333 Email: reservations.olympia@hilton.com
Small neighbourhood restaurant with menu based on classic
http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/hilton-london-
French cuisine. Main courses include ragout of monkfish with
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samphire and bucatini (£19.50), confit of duck and roast
British cuisine, at about £30 a head. Main courses include roasted
breast (£18.50), and mushroom and asparagus risotto with
butternut squash and ricotta wellington, sea bream with baby
goat’s cheese (£16.50).
vegetables, pearl barley and a saffron broth, and fillet of chicken with mash potato and sautéed spinach.
Acciuga
HEREFORD ROAD 3 Hereford Road, Westbourne Grove, London W2 4AB Tel 020 7727 1144 Email: info@herefordroad.org
343 Kensington High Street, London W8 6NW
www.herefordroad.org
Tel 020 7603 3888 Email: info@acciuga.co.uk
Notting Hill restaurant with an open kitchen. There is a set lunch
http://www.acciuga.co.uk/
menu, offering two courses for £13.50 or three courses for £15.50.
Seasonal menu of Ligurian dishes. Praised for friendly service. Main courses
Starters include beetroot, buttermilk and wild garlic; soft herring
at £20 include lamb and artichoke with egg and lemon sauce, salmon
roes on toast; and crispy pork, chicory and mustard. Mains, lamb,
baked in salt, and chick pea cake with radicchio and balsamic vinegar.
green beans and mint salad; grilled mackerel fillet, cucumber and
Cibo
kohlrabi; lentils, mushrooms and wild garlic.
3 Russell Gardens, London W14 8EZ
KENSINGTON PLACE
Tel 020 7371 2085 Email: ciborestaurant@aol.com
201 Kensington Church Street, London W8 7LX
http://www.ciborestaurant.net/home.html
Tel 020 7727 3184
Very popular and competitively priced Italian restaurant. Mains
www.kensingtonplace-restaurant.co.uk
include braised wild boar with Roman semolina dumplings (£17.50),
Book through the website.
sea bream baked with lemon and herbs (£16.50), and gnocchi with
A well-established favourite in Notting Hill. Seafood is a speciality,
pesto and pine kernels (£11).
with favourites including prawn cocktail (£9) and fish pie (£14.50).
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The London Book Fair Preview
Tuesday 14th – Thursday 16th April 2015
Authors of the day Four leading authors, and the queen of cookery writers As always, the London Book Fair has a prestigious lineup of Authors of the Day. David Nicholls will be Digital Author of the Day on Monday 13th April, when he will give a keynote address at the Publishing for Digital Minds Conference. At a Fair that celebrates the role of books within the media industries, Nicholls is a one-man illustration of the theme, having written original screenplays, screenplay adaptations (Tess of the David Nicholls D’Urbervilles), and of course novels including the record-breaking One Day– which has sold more than 5 million copies round the world–and Us, which Hodder publishes in paperback on 7th May. It is always difficult to follow a much-loved bestseller, but critics and readers have agreed that Nicholls has succeeded. On Tuesday, when the Fair proper opens, Mary Berry and Deborah Moggach will be the stars. Berry will open the Fair, a ceremonial duty befitting her status as the queen of UK cookery writers. She was already an established bestseller when she began appearing on The Great British Bake Off in 2010, and has, thanks to the success of the series, been propelled
to the position of the most successful cookery writer in the UK. Her books, including Mary Berry Cooks, earned more than £6.7m through UK booksellers’ tills last year. Moggach has similar credentials to Nicholls’, having written screenplays of her own works and Mary Berry others’, original screen dramas, and, in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a novel that has inspired two hit films. She is the daughter of writers–the naval historian and biographer Richard Hough and the children’s author and illustrator Charlotte Hough, and she has “Rules for Writers” that LBF visitors will be eager to hear. Among them: “Don’t start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well.” She also has experience of the frustrations of the movie business. The film of her novel Tulip Fever was all set to go into production in 2004 when a change in the tax law prompted the backers to withdraw their funding. However, it seems that the film is at last to be made, with Judi Dench among the stars. Wednesday is the turn of Mexican author Valeria Luiselli, Market Focus Author of the Day. Luiselli, again appropriately at a Fair that celebrates both cultural distinctiveness and crossing borders, is very much the modern, peripatetic, international writer. She has lived in countries including Costa Rica, South Korea, South Africa, India, Spain, and France, and is now based in New York. Her essays and novels are about ways of viewing places, from outsiders’ and insiders’ perspectives. She writes mostly in Spanish, but can write in English. About her novel Faces in the Crowd, the Guardian wrote:
“Rules for Writers” that LBF visitors will be eager to hear. Among them: “Don’t start writing your novel until you know your characters very, very well.” Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach
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“Luiselli’s novel stands apart from most Latin American fiction. She avoids worn-out narratives about drug wars and violence, and her downbeat supernaturalism feels quite different from the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez. Concerned, above all, with literature’s ability to transcend time and space, Faces in the Crowd signals the appearance of an exciting female voice to join a new wave of Latino writers.”
THE London Book Fair Preview
Former Laureate
Children’s Anthony Browne is Author of the Day on Thursday. His classic picture books such as Gorilla combine the surreal and the everyAnthony Browne day, and encourage children to engage with stories and look afresh at the world around them. He is a passionate advocate of nurturing visual literacy. He said on taking the Laureateship: “In recent years, picture books have become the sole province of the very young; children are encouraged to move on to ‘proper’ books earlier and earlier. Looking is just as important as words: if vision is marginalised, we lose our ability to really see.” ■
“In recent years, picture books have become the sole province of the very young; children are encouraged to move on to ‘proper’ books earlier and earlier.” Anthony Browne
Valeria Luiselli
Literary Festivals Forum Thursday 16th April Such has been the boom in literary festivals in recent years that it can seem that every town in the country has become involved in hosting writers’ discussions and performances. The London Book Fair has responded to the trend with a Literary Festival Forum, taking place on the afternoon of Thursday 16th April in the Apex Room at Olympia. The first panel is devoted to a subject that festivals often select for debates: Where Is the Money Going? Publisher Philip Gwyn Jones and writers Nell Leyshon and Viv Groskop, chaired by Chris Gribble of the National Writers’ Centre, will examine the trends that appear to have resulted in diminished incomes
for many writers at a time when giant companies are battling for control of the book market. The debate will be followed by two panels offering practical advice for festival and events organisers. The Do’s and Don’ts of Successful Festival Organisation will involve prominent festival directors James Heneage of the Chalke Valley History Festival, Nick Barley of the Edinburgh Book Festival, and Gemma Roland of the Harrogate Literary Festival. Then comes Marketing, PR, and Ticket Sales: Securing a Full Audience for your Festival, chaired by Philip Jones of the Bookseller. Chris Gribble will round off the afternoon with a Q&A. ■
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