Supermarkets are selling festive wrapping paper, our emails are being flooded with Christmas holiday deals and, most importantly, Marks and Spencer has unveiled its first batch of luxury mince pies. I'm all ready to hibernate for the festive season, swapping the summer diet for stodgy delights and Downton Abbey but it's all too early isn't it? The publishing industry never thinks so, with hundreds of books being published ahead of the Christmas period, but who will make it to the top?
I have a confession to make. I'm one of those irritatingly impatient people that I like to call 'eager beavers'. I pre-ordered The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling, alright? I entered not one but TWO competitions to meet her and I am poised for the live YouTube broadcast of her talk this evening from the Southbank Centre in London (7.30pm GMT) to mark the publication of her new book: http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthbankCentre
Already topping Amazon's charts despite only being published today, The Casual Vacancy is pipped to be one of the season's big sellers across the world for reasons I don't need to explain, I'm sure, but who's challenging her?
Ian McEwan has returned on the fiction scene with Sweet Tooth about a young girl who finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services. A Possible Life is a recent release from Birdsong writer, Sebastian Faulks, and there are plenty of crime novels ready for the Autumn rush with new books from Lee Child, Val McDermid, David Baldacci and Martina Cole whose new thriller, The Life, debuted at the top of the fiction charts a couple of weeks ago.
In cookery, you might have seen Jamie Oliver's funny squishy face beaming at you from bookshop displays as 15 Minute Meals is out today and if 30 Minute Meals is anything to go by, this one's going to soar up the charts. In the US, Now Eat This! Italian: Favorite Dishes from the Real Mamas of Italy is making its way up the charts and Nigella Lawson is hoping to put her twist on Italian cuisine with Nigellissima.
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