From very modest beginnings in the Berners Hotel near Oxford Street in 1971 as the Specialist Publishers’ Exhibition for Librarians, The London Book Fair – as it took the name in 1977 – has grown to be an essential part of the international book trade calendar.
Today, the entire international publishing industry is represented, from the giant houses we are familiar with to the smallest independents – the publishers of blockbuster novels and academic texts and the producers of children’s books and graphic novels.