One To Avoid....

Looks like Harper Collins has decided to make a New Year Resolution to lose money in 2025: 

Reni Eddo-Lodge, the author of the 2017 bestseller Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, has launched an imprint with the publisher HarperCollins. Monument Books will publish titles by writers “who can help us understand our past, navigate our present and map new futures”, said Kishani Widyaratna, publishing director at 4th Estate, the HarperCollins imprint with which Monument Books is being launched in collaboration.

And who will these world-straddling titans of literature actually be? 

The imprint will launch in February next year with a book compiled by Steve McQueen. Resistance, a photographic history of activism in Britain, also features writing by Gary Younge, Paul Gilroy and Shami Chakrabarti. It accompanies an exhibition at Margate’s Turner Contemporary which opens in February.

It sounds like a hardbound copy of the worst of the 'Guardian's' racebaiting columns to me. 

The name Monument is “derived from the idea of each work on the list standing as a new monument to ideas, stories and culture, as well as uplifting or refashioning past legacies,” said 4th Estate.

Translation: twisting the facts and the history until it paints a good light on the worst people. 

“At a time when the world feels increasingly polarised and uncertain, it is a privilege for us to be working with Reni Eddo-Lodge on an imprint that will help connect readers to the world around them and to each other,” said Widyaratna.

Increasing the polarisation seems a strange way to try to accomplish that, but, well, you do you, Harper Collins...