THE CURRENT ITERATION of the trade magazine The Bookseller, earnest yet excitable and full of profiles of happening young people, is probably what Matthew Arnold would have marked down as “a regrettable modern tendency”.
Browsing through it the other day the Secret Author was interested to come across an advert for the British Book Awards, otherwise known as the “Nibbies”. “Whether you’re joining us in the room, tuning in to the livestream or catching up with our post-awards highlights show,” the rubric advised, “Lauren and Rhys
