THE WORLD OF WRITING
SELL BOOKS BEFORE YOU PUBLISH THEM
Sharmaine Lovegrove, who worked for two decades as a bookseller before becoming the publisher at Dialogue Books, says that her party trick is to provide a ten-book reading list by knowing three books a person loves and two they hate.
In ‘You must spend a year in a bookshop before you get a job in publishing’, her contribution to the Guardian series 21 brilliant ideas to remake the world, Sharmaine puts the case that it would transform the books that are published and the stories that are told.
‘I’ve long
