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 ]
A steadfast member of the radical bookselling community is to retire after 45 years at Liverpool store News From Nowhere. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-10 05:23:08 UTC ]
An independent bookshop spotlighting women’s writing is opening in Edinburgh today (6th August), inspired by a successful book club. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-06 19:47:21 UTC ]
Before Covid, A Good Used Book was a pop-up bookshop thriving across L.A. It's back to physical business this month — at the end of a long, hard road. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-08-05 13:00:28 UTC ]
Matt Haig has become the first author to feature on Bookshop.org's Indie Champions list with two titles in the same month. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-08-01 01:03:15 UTC ]
Líra Könyv made to pay £600 for failing to clearly indicate the story featured ‘a family that is different than a normal family’A bookshop chain in Hungary has been fined for selling a children’s story depicting a day in the life of a child with same-sex parents, with officials condemning the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-07-08 12:09:32 UTC ]
Former Review Bookshop manager Katia Wengraf has raised more than £10,000 online to help fund her new independent store, Mount Florida Books, in a former tattoo parlour in Glasgow. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-20 21:34:09 UTC ]