Lean Years for the British novel, Publishers Say

The British are savouring Doris Lessing’s Nobel Literature Prize but publishers at the world’s biggest book fair said on Friday the nation had forsaken good novels for mysteries and gory thrillers.

And it is women readers who want more suspense and blood from authors, alongside the usual romance, David Shelley, a publisher with Little Brown said at the Frankfurt fair.

“There are a lot of women who want to read about really scary things being done to women and children,” he said. More Here.