The Guardian has their annual feature in which they survey top UK editors, asking about their “books that deserved to do better” and the books they wish they had published. Or rather, they survey 11 men and 2 women — so Virago associate publisher Ursula Doyle has mobilized a broader look from female editors under the #hitsandmisses hashtag on Twitter. Robin Robertson at Jonathan Cape goes above and beyond in listing 3 books that deserved bigger audiences in “a grim year for literary publishing”: Adam Foulds’s In the Wolf’s Mouth, Elizabeth McCracken’s Thunderstruck, and “the one that really got away,” Other People’s Countries […]
