London Book Fair Podcast London Book Fair

We interviewed Vivian Bird, Director of the literary charity Booktrust, to hear about how they and many other organisations are encouraging and empowering people of all ages to become lifelong readers.

Liz Thomson from Book Brunch talks to Sujata Sen, Director East India - British Council about the Indian market in relation to LBF 2009.

Liz Thomson from Book Brunch talks to Tim Hely, CEO Hachette Livre about his thoughts on the state of the publishing industry.

Liz Thomson from Publishing News talks to Sebastian Faulks about his latest novel Engleby, as well as his future James Bond book.

We interviewed Francis Bennett who has programmes the Digital Seminars at this years London Book Fair. He talks about some of the opportunities and risks in digitisation.

We interviewed Julian Friedman, Managing Director of the Blake Friedman Literary Agency, to hear about the complexities of the negotiation process between agents and film producers when selling options to adapt a book to film and to find out the author’s role within this process, as well as getting his views on other opportunities open to authors.