
Sarah Moorhouse
Research Editor at Oxford University Press
Book Reviewer at Freelance
Research Editor at Oxford University Press. Reviews and articles in the Spectator, TLS, LA Review of Books, Literary Review, Lithub etc
Articles
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2 months ago |
the-tls.co.uk | Sarah Moorhouse
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Mar 16, 2025 |
thecritic.co.uk | Sarah Moorhouse
This article is taken from the March 2025 issue of The Critic. To get the full magazine why not subscribe? Right now we’re offering five issues for just £10. Kindles, soaring costs, a general crisis about readers and their waning attention spans. The last couple of decades haven’t exactly been plain sailing for those in the book business. It’s not surprising, then, that stories of a supposed golden age of publishing have begun to crop up.
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Mar 3, 2025 |
the-orb.org | Sarah Moorhouse
By Sarah Moorhouse At a time when the promise of a massive advance tends to lure superstar novelists into publishing every couple of years, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an outlier: she refuses to be rushed. Dream Count, her first novel in over a decade, is worth the wait. A pandemic novel, it’s about grief, about immigrant experiences and about friendship and love.
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Feb 5, 2025 |
thebookseller.com | Sarah Moorhouse
For decades now, the ‘Big Five’ publishers have been swelling in size by amassing a huge number of imprints: names under which they publish that each focus on a specific genre, market or type of book. Some, such as Virago or Fourth Estate, used to be independent publishers, but many, such as Hachette’s Brazen Books or Penguin’s Fern Press, began within these larger organisations. The question is, does the industry have too many imprints and do they influence how readers behave?
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May 30, 2024 |
thebookseller.com | Sarah Moorhouse
There is a certain mythology in the publishing industry about what makes a great editor. We might say that they have an "eye", an instinct or a taste that enables them to sniff out writers with potential and bring us books we really want to read. Editors can hold enormous influence: their backing can make a fledgling author’s career or launch new trends and genres. But what an editor’s "taste" involves is difficult to pin down.
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Here’s my piece about the weird and wonderful work of Gauguin for @LAReviewofBooks Thanks @ellie_eberlee for your editorial magic!

"In life as in fiction, Gauguin operated as he painted—outlandishly." @_moorhousesarah reads Sue Prideaux’s "Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin." https://t.co/8WoatBeV5I https://t.co/d3rU1LyPDS

My review of Tash Aw’s The South for Harvard Review: https://t.co/D1KUH1jpLQ

I reviewed Edward Wilson-Lee's The Grammar of Angels for @LAReviewofBooks

.@_moorhousesarah reviews "The Grammar of Angels," Edward Wilson-Lee's recent book arranged around Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Renaissance polymath whose ideas "scandalized the church and challenged the intellectual conformities of his time." https://t.co/mljZOtQih6 https://t.co/Jf76WlISTl