2 posts tagged Alison Baverstock

At Christmas I received a copy of The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook 2008, and a couple of months ago I was browsing the online site's list of literary festivals, trying to find one reasonably close enough to me that I could actually attend. I had missed the Sunday Times-Oxford Literary Festival but really wanted to go to one.

Yesterday was my first time at the London Book Fair, which must be a rite of passage for anyone wanting to work with books. Of course I was only there as an observer, but it was great fun wandering the aisles, watching all the meetings going on at the different publishers’ stands, reading the name badges of everyone who walked past and going ‘ooh, she works for Penguin….