• "I very much enjoyed our conversation. Your knowledge of the story of publishing, the current questions facing publishers, and specifically the long and recent history of Faber & Faber, bears testament to your expertise, vocation and deep interest in the story of reading and writing seen particularly through an industry lens. If it's valuable now, which it is, in the future it will be an essential archive of our febrile times, and of publishing in the second half of the twentieth century. Keep doing it!"

    —  Stephen Page, Chair of Faber & Faber, one of world's leading independent publishers, after having been Chief Executive for 20 years.

  • "Nigel Beale is one of the sharpest readers and reviewers of our age. His profound knowledge of every aspect of the literary business is carried with grace and charm in podcasts that will delight all who read."

    — Author and political analyst David Frum

  • "I wanted to thank you for your many generous and intelligent words about my new book How Fiction Works (and other stuff)... I get great pleasure from reading your blog."

    — James Wood, Critic, The New Yorker

  • “You can find very bad writing and sloppy impressionism in literary blogs, but also incisive, fresh, thoughtful criticism from voices unencumbered by the politics of Grub St. I would put your blog in the latter category, which is why I’m responding here… Congratulations on a very fine blog."

    — Dr. Ronan McDonald, Scholar, author of The Death of the Critic

  • "The Biblio File is an extraordinary, eclectic audio archive of writers, publishers, booksellers, librarians, the whole international book trade. Nigel Beale has achieved this through doggedness, professionalism, decency and an ambition to capture the essence of the world’s literary community. It is a huge achievement and will only grow in significance and value as years pass. It completely overshadows all other such enterprises."

    — Richard Charkin, former Chief Executive of Macmillan Publishers Limited and Executive Director of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck. 2015-17 President of the International Publishers Association

  • I enjoyed our meeting, and was pleased that unlike most such encounters, there was no sense of the inquisitorial. We had a conversation, and brought out the best in each other.

    — John Banville, Author.