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... Personally Speaking “SECONDNOVELITIS“ iS an occupational disease for most fiction publishers. Secker & Warburg had a bad attack of it when their Irish discovery, Christy Brown, followed up his terrific seller Down All Our Days with A Shadow on Summer ...

... Persqnally Speaking LONDON has rarely been so crowded with visitors. Whether they buy books is debatable, but one they ought to buy is in front of me now. Londoners themselves will want it too, if they have the money—£s-95. London, by Aubrey Menon, will ...

... Personally Speaking I THOUGHT Heinemann’s Charles Pick summed up the Bookrest Sponsored Walk aptly enough, next morning. ““How wonderful to see such co-operation’, and he meant, of course, among booksellers, publishers, authors, and Fleet Street. Sitting ...

... Personally Speaking MICHAEL FooT has a book coming from Davis-Poynter in September that has had the Observer paying more that it has ever paid for a serial before. Reginald Davis-Poynter, who has world rights—and the author’s close friendship—has sealed ...

... Personally Speaking PAT NEWMAN certainly got the Frankfurt headlines when it was announced that Frederick Forsyth’s next novel had been bought by him for Corgi for £250,000. What was not announced was that Forsyth will get all of £lm for his unwritten ...

... Personally Speaking HARRAP have a novel called Baxter that should be required reading for a correspondent of the Times who wrote last week: “During a TV dog food commercial our newly arrived Golden Retriever pup walked to the set, pressed his nose to ...

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... Personally Speaking I HAVE often wondered what an in-depth market research of this column’s readers would reveal—apart from n!'at dear soul who writes: “Dear Pig How , for instance, were around in%fin. and bookselling in the *3os, when 29 firms went out ...

... Personally Speaking THE world of letters had more than its fair share of deaths in 1978, and there were a number of us who most deeply mourned John Pudney. He worked to the end, dedicated professional that he was, and the last book from his able pen will ...

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