So THAT's Why Old Books Smell So Good

We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about why hardback books almost always get released before paperbacks. 

But having recently cracked open a decades-old Austen story, I was left with another literary question – why do old ones smell so, so good? 

Well, in a recent episode of the behind-the-scenes showbiz podcast The Rest Is Entertainment, co-hosts Richard Osman and Marina Hyde shed light on my query.

Thursday Murder Club author Richard Osman joked: “That’s why I signed with [book publisher] Penguin.