Off The Fence No. 1 30 June 2020
Off the Fence #1
An anonymous publishing insider on the industry's lockdown spring, from bookshop closures and low-balled advances to the Hachette mutiny over JK Rowling. Sean Ketteringham, a volunteer on the Oxford vaccine trial, interviewed. Also: London Zoo reopens after its longest closure, its lonely pygmy goats and Lubetkin's unloved penguin pool, and Rachel Cusk's house on the market for £2.5 million.
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