Towards the end of the noughties, Colm Tóibín bounced into the office of a London publisher clutching a fat Australian novel and insisting that he had to bring it to the UK. His enthusiasm for what he would later acclaim as a book "of immense power and scope, reminiscent of Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Don DeLillo's Underworld" caused some surprise at Atlantic Books, which was among the 80-odd publishers that had already rejected Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap.
Covers story: why are there so many new publishing imprints? | Books | The Guardian
27 June 2016
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