The giant event put a large contingent of Britain’s finest on display, and should provide an invitation for English-language readers to explore an unfamiliar new world of reading.

"The Guadalajara international book fair, or FIL as it’s better known, is a huge and hectic event: think the London book fair meets an Amazon warehouse, with thousands of schoolchildren thrown into the mix. Now in its 29th year, FIL is the most important book fair in the Spanish-speaking world, and the second largest anywhere – on two counts: number of publishers, after Frankfurt; and number of visitors, after Buenos Aires.

This year, the UK was the guest of honour, a reciprocal gesture after Mexico was Market Focus at the London book fair in April. In Guadalajara, the British Council endeavoured to make the UK delegation fully representative of the UK and its cultural diversity, delivering 30 writers spanning all regions, backgrounds and genres including Salman Rushdie, Philippa Gregory, Irvine Welsh, Owen Jones, Joanne Harris and Jeanette Winterson."

Read more here.