FEATURE5 September 2016

The Book Group

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Understanding readers and leaving no segment unmined has been Louisa Livingston’s priority since joining Hachette and establishing its insight department. By Rob Gray

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There’s a magnificent outlook from the roof terrace of Carmelite House on Victoria Embankment. To the east, The Shard and the gleaming skyscrapers of the City; to the west, the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye, with the Thames sparkling in the sunshine as it winds its way in between.  

The roof terrace, with its sweeping, filmic panorama, would make a great location for a dramatic scene in a novel, with a canny eye to a subsequent TV or movie adaptation. It has certainly proved a terrific place to hold a book launch. For Carmelite House is the relatively new UK headquarters of Hachette, one of the world’s book publishing giants. It’s far removed from the cluttered, poky, slightly ramshackle building one might presuppose would house a bookish business. Rather, this smartly refurbished edifice is bright, airy and smacks of slick ...