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. Bring twenty pages, book a thirty-minute slot, and talk to an editor about 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.