Wordholt opens a Manchester reading room

From September, Wordholt keeps a room on Whitworth Street: a long table, a wall of shelves, and six editors within reach of anyone writing in the north of England.

Thursday afternoons are open desk hours. Send twenty pages through the form and an editor will write back with notes on what the pages are doing. There is no charge and no obligation to become a client.

We are doing this because the geography of publishing in Britain is still absurd, and because most of the manuscripts that surprise us do not arrive from London.