More than Mansfield in Bloomsbury Group

Liz Calder, the NZedged head of Bloomsbury publishing (publishers of such literary luminaries as Michael Ondaatje, Will Self and John Irving), talks to The Guardian about the touted blockbuster battle, book and film drawn as weapons, between Bloomsbury’s Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings: “There’s no link other than the obvious one, that they’re both extraordinarily good stories. What they’re so successful at is in taking the reader into another world in a complete fashion, in such a way that you don’t want to come back: you don’t want the books to end”.