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In a bizarrely titled article, the Scotsman‘s Tim Cornwell talks about the process of cataloguing the John Murray archives.
The archive is being offered to the National Library at what is said to be a discount price by today’s John Murray, after the firm was sold to publishing giant Hodder Headline. Quaritch have put the value at 45m, possibly more.
For the last quarter-century or so it has been maintained by Murray’s wife, Virginia. She enjoys the detailed ledgers kept for every book, showing costings, print run, sales figures, correspondence between author and publisher, and even where a book was pulped because it failed to sell.
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Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.