Welcome to the London Book Fair, Where Everyone Knows Their Place
Briefly

Just inside the doors of the cavernous Olympia exhibition space, the Penguin Random House stand was on the right, its entrance staffed by a row of tightly smiling assistants.
For three days, agents, editors, publishers, scouts, and other industry professionals gather to make deals, gauge trends, and plot strategies. The fair provides a clear look at the industry's power hierarchy.
Everything radiated outward from this central core across two carpeted floors, in diminishing order of...
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