After the terrible experiences of the 2006 London Book Fair at ExCel in Docklands where nothing seemed to go right at all it was a joy to return to West London for what many attendees agree was the best fair ever. In a new home at Earls Court (having previously been at Olympia in 2005 - a site which the fair’s increasing international reputation soon outgrew) the London International Book Fair saw record attendances and a huge volume of business being generated. PFD fielded a large team in the International Rights Centre with Tom Rob Smith’s thriller CHILD 44 scooping the pool as the hottest book of the fair with a large number of deals being done worldwide. Ridley Scott snapped up the film rights 48 hours before the fair began and PFD’s new Adult Foreign Rights Director, Jessica Craig, and Tom Rob Smith’s literary agent, James Gill, were soon beseiged by publishers keen to read and bid for this exceptional debut.
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