Alongside Richard Osman and JK Rowling, figures show huge successes for relative unknowns Ellery Adams and Brenda ChapmanThe UK’s library users are widely seen as a traditional bunch when it comes to choosing their next read, but while Richard Osman might have topped the list of the year’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-12-08 16:34:37 UTC ]
It might seem odd for a magazine called The Bookseller to have a dedicated issue for “booksellers”, but this week’s issue is a dedicated one for, well, booksellers, including our now-annual listing of the Bookshop Heroes, those purveyors of the written word who, when push came to shove in 2021,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 15:21:51 UTC ]
Black bookshop owners are finding that their efforts are paying off by sharing stories and bringing communities closer together through their local store. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 08:27:39 UTC ]
Twenty-three people have been included in The Bookseller's Bookshop Heroes class of 2021, a list of some of the best individual booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-03 04:23:58 UTC ]
Will Smith has partnered with Black-owned bookshops and artists of colour across the UK and America to celebrate his upcoming memoir Will (Century), with Sevenoaks Bookshop featuring an artist’s display. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-11 02:48:04 UTC ]
Following the acclaimed author’s decision not to have Beautiful World, Where Are You translated by an Israeli publisher, two major retailers have removed her work from their shelvesBooks by Sally Rooney will no longer be sold in two Israeli bookshop chains, after the acclaimed writer’s decision... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-05 16:14:29 UTC ]
A new children’s bookshop in Hitchin is specialising in inclusive titles, including books that celebrate neurodiversity. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-11 14:30:39 UTC ]
We interviewed booksellers about their experience of the pandemic and their customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-10-07 05:14:45 UTC ]
Shah Muhammad Rais, who was made famous in The Bookseller of Kabul, has vowed to keep his bookshop open, despite having had only two customers since the Taliban retook the country in the middle of August. Founded in 1974 Rais’s store has seen regimes (along with foreign powers) come and go, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2021-09-28 15:00:23 UTC ]
And of course it includes a two-story library — modeled on the Bodleian at Oxford University — for his massive collection of books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-09-28 09:00:26 UTC ]
Far too many times, I’ve been in a bookshop or a school and heard adults persuade a child away from a picture book and encouraged them to read ‘something more appropriate’. There’s a huge notion in this country that picture books are for younger children and a step into ‘proper reading’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 08:06:26 UTC ]
Sophie Lambert has been appointed to Bookshop.org's advisory board, as the company continues to grow and embarks on future development plans. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-08 04:20:35 UTC ]
Andersen Press has partnered with children's bookshop brand Moon Lane Group to promote author Joseph Coelho and illustrator Fiona Lumbers' latest title, Luna Loves Dance, in a series of window displays. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 11:21:08 UTC ]
Independent children’s bookshop Round Table Books has hired Meera Ghanshamdas as its new director. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-01 06:07:32 UTC ]
The lead protagonist in the British TV comedy series Black Books might even relish being in lockdown. If you don’t, you might enjoy watching this show. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2021-08-27 00:11:11 UTC ]
An Essex-based indie bookshop is doubling in size after "thriving" during the pandemic. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 20:03:30 UTC ]
A new independent bookshop which nods to Bristol’s “radical past and present” has opened in the city’s Harbourside area, near where Edward Colston's statue was brought down last year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-25 11:33:12 UTC ]
A story for children about families with same-sex parents has been published in Russia as part of a campaign to have the country’s ‘gay propaganda’ law repealedA month after a Hungarian bookshop chain was fined for selling a children’s story about a day in the life of a child with same-sex... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-17 14:33:19 UTC ]
More than 60 bookshops launched in the UK and Ireland in the past 18 months – but who would open one in a pandemic? We asked five to share their stories, while bestselling author Val McDermid remembers the bookshops of her youthWhen I was growing up in a small Scottish town, we had a bookshop... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-08-15 11:00:06 UTC ]
The fourth outing of the award produced by the Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid features work centered on colonial oppression. The post Madrid’s ‘Desperate Literature’ Short Fiction Prize: Paige Cowan-Hall appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2021-08-13 21:40:40 UTC ]