publications

Associate Editor for Twentieth Century Britain, in Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen, general eds. The Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford: OUP, 2010).
Marketing Literature: The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Philip Pullman, Master Storyteller : A Guide to the Worlds of His Dark Materials (London: Continuum, 2006).
Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide (London: Continuum, 2003).
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: A Reader’s Guide (London: Continuum, 2002).

‘The Book in Britain 1914-present’ in Michael Suarez and Henry Woudhuysen, general eds., Oxford Companion to the Book (Oxford: OUP, 2010).
‘Marketing at the Millennium’ in Janet Maybin and Nicola J Watson, eds., Children's Literature: Approaches and Territories (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
‘How to Judge a Book by its Cover: Swallows and Amazons’, Financial Times, 15/16 November 2008.
‘Ghostwriting’ and ‘Marketing Fiction’ in Giles Clark and Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing (Abingdon: Routledge, 2008), 4th edn..
‘The Global Market 1970-2000: Consumers’ in Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, eds., A Companion to the History of the Book (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007).
‘Living Happily Ever After’, Publishing News London Book Fair Daily, 15 April 2008.
‘Literary Prizes, Literary Categories and Children’s Literature in the 1990s-2000s’ in Vanessa Guignery and François Gallix, eds., Pre- and post-publication itineraries of the contemporary novel in English (Paris: Éditions Publibook Université, 2007).
‘Judging on a Cover: Book Marketing and The Booker Prize’ in Nicole Matthews and Nickianne Moody, eds., Judging a Book by its Cover: Fans, Publishers, Designers and the Marketing of Books (London: Ashgate, 2007).

‘Novelistic Production and the Publishing Industry’ in Brian Shaffer, ed., A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945-2000 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).
‘A Common Ground? Book Prize Culture in Europe’ in Javnost The Public 2004 11:4.
‘Zadie Smith’s White Teeth: Happy Multicultural Land?’, in E Magazine, December 2002.
‘Toby Litt’, for Michael R Molino, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twenty-First Century British and Irish Novelists (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2002).
‘A Guide to Literary Prizes’, Edinburgh Review, Issue 103, 2000.
Contributor (15 entries) to The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English, Lorna Sage, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
‘Trainspotting and Publishing, or Converting the Smack into Hard Cash’, Edinburgh Review, Issue 101, 1999.

Volume Editor for the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 7 1914-2000 (Cambridge: CUP), with Andrew Nash and Ian Willison (in preparation).

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