Londoner’s Diary: Europe is no longer an open book for publishers

LONDON’s smaller presses are struggling to get books into Europe due to rule changes in the wake of Brexit.

Clare Bogen of Fitzcarraldo Editions, which publishes recent Nobel literature prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk, below, told us: “We’re really struggling to get EU customers their books. The UK used to be a publishing centre but now due to red tape that is flagging.”