Wordsmith

Sometimes the best thing about a book is its title. Mark Thompson's first will be called "Enough Said".

Former BBC DG Mark, now president and chief executive of The New York Times Company, is building upon a series of more-or-less penetrable lectures delivered at St Peter's College, Oxford in 2012, under the equally opaque banner, "The Cloud of Unknowing".

Bodley Head will publish in the UK in 2015. In a bid to drive sales into the low hundreds, Mr Thompson said earlier this month, “Thanks to the web and the smartphone, we’ve never had more access to information or more opportunity to deliberate and help decide the great issues of the day. Yet public understanding of and engagement with the most important issues of the day is faltering.”

You can read the original lectures here.