A busy Macmillan stand at the book fair with a pensive blue-shirted loner in the centre (photo courtesy of Keith Martin, Senior Lecturer in Publishing at the London College of Communications).

Our big announcement was one which filled me with pride - the news that Peter Ackroyd was moving his future publishing to Macmillan. I was involved in his last big and successful publishing deal when I was at Reed (and the lists were later sold to Random House) and so somehow it feels more like a continuation than a change. He is one of Britain's great literary talents and his new projects are humdingers. More on Peter here.

And this happy event was matched by the announcement that long-time Picador author Cormac McCarthy has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with The Road.

These two important literary events follow a debate after a recent blog about our publishing Geri Halliwell's children's books. I think the knockers are wrong about Geri Halliwell but that notwithstanding I also think that a healthy publishing campaign thrives on diversity and at Macmillan we are nothing if not diverse in what we publish, how we publish and where we publish.

Here are the red Macmillan English Dictionary balloons taking off from Sao Paulo, Brazil and Beijing, China.