BOOKS ETC.

On the subject of rubbish being published I think all of us strugglers have definite opinions. But we would do well to remember that TWAS EVER THUS. Many of the world's most hyped and best sold books are now cast out of the publishing memory bank with the also runners sitting on the top of the pile. Either in Kangaroo, or about Kangaroo, can't remember, DH Lawrence ruminated on the fact he found it hard to live on sales of 300. Yet all his work is in print and will remain so, hopefully for as long as books are published. The machine-written bestsellers of today will return to the machine to be pulped. Good thing too. I love the phrase "commercial" almost as much as I love the phrase "mass market paperback". Where are the publishers deliberately aiming to produce non-commercial books and paperbacks not to be bought by the masses?