A personal view of this year's London Book Fair from BookBrunch joint editor Neill Denny
Frankly, I thought this was one of the better LBFs of recent years. Inevitably, there are flies in the ointment, and I'll come to those later, but let's start with the pluses.
Money is back. All around, there is the whiff of confidence in trade publishing. The British print market has roared back to life in the last 18 months, its best run for a decade, and the publishers are finally making real money.