Interviews

6th September 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Janet Fritsch

Blogs, Interviews

Janet Fritsch has more than 40 years of experience helping to build global relationships between publishers by promoting U.S. publishers at International and U.S. Book Fairs. Her cooperative businesses, The ... Read more

28th August 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Anna Cunnane

Blogs, Interviews

Anna Cunnane is Senior Data Executive at Abrams & Chronicle Books. She graduated with a Distinction from the MA in Publishing at UCL in 2013 and was Chair of the ... Read more

22nd August 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Cristina Peligra

Blogs, Interviews

Cristina Peligra is Senior Library Assistant at The Kittiwake Trust’s Multilingual Library in Newcastle upon Tyne. Originally from Italy, where she graduated in Dutch and German languages and literatures, she ... Read more

9th August 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with Lauren Whitehead

Blogs, Interviews

Lauren Whitehead runs the book-based YouTube channel ‘Reads and Daydreams’; over the past three years she has gained 20k subscribers and created official content for the Man Booker Prize, Costa ... Read more

1st August 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with Lucy Pearson

Blogs, Interviews

Lucy Pearson is an award-winning book blogger based between Sydney and London who specialises in literary themed travel and book reviews. An ardent and avid reader, she started her blog, ... Read more

31st July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with Faroukh Naseem

Blogs, Interviews

Faroukh Naseem is the creator behind the Instagram account, @theguywiththebook, and the 2018 winner of LBF’s Bookstagrammer of the Year Award. Naseem describes himself as such: “a 30 something passionate reader ... Read more

25th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with David Crystal

Blogs, Interviews

David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, Wales, UK, but works from his home in Holyhead, Wales, as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster. He ... Read more

13th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes With Peggy Seeger

Blogs, Interviews

Peggy Seeger is a musician and writer. Her memoir First Time Ever was published by Faber & Faber in 2017. Seeger is also a Patron of Borderline Books, run by ... Read more

4th July 201819th October 2020

5 Minutes with Caroline Mitchell

Blogs, Interviews

Dr. Caroline Mitchell is Chair of The Kittiwake Trust, LBF’s 2018 Charity of the Year. The Trust oversees two projects: Borderline Books in Gateshead and The Multilingual Library in Newcastle. ... Read more

2nd July 201819th October 2020

5 Minute Interview with Michael Rosen

Blogs, Interviews

Michael Rosen is one of Britain’s best loved writers and performance poets for children and adults. He is currently Professor of Children’s Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London where he co-devised ... Read more