10 Questions for Hwang Bo-reum, by Michelle Johnson Interviews [email protected] Tue, 02/20/2024 - 10:01 Photo by Seong Ji Min Clayhouse Inc.Hwang Bo-reum’s debut novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop, translated by Shanna Tan, was published... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-02-20 16:01:47 UTC ]
The ‘fascinating insight into what was to become an iconic work’ is the only known surviving copy of its kind and is to be auctioned along with a first edition signed by RowlingA prepublication version of the first Harry Potter book by JK Rowling is expected to fetch at least £20,000 when it is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-04-26 09:29:11 UTC ]
The UK’s largest independent bookshop chain Blackwell's is up for sale for the first time in its 143-year history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2022-02-01 12:20:05 UTC ]
Independent bookshop Kibworth Books has raised more than £2,000, to gift books to children being treated in Leicester Royal Infirmary over Christmas. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-24 11:27:47 UTC ]
The owners of Welsh independent bookshop Book-ish are celebrating after completing the purchase of their premises with help from a crowdfunder backed by the trade. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-23 07:20:40 UTC ]
The owners of award-winning independent bookshop Book-ish are raising funds to "secure their future", seeking to buy their premises before it goes on the open market. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-18 16:44:18 UTC ]
Ahead of its 25-year anniversary, the founder of independent bookshop No Alibis talks about his budding list of publications, its roots in the crime fiction community, and the famous faces who have visited its renowned in-store gigs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-10 12:39:31 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 ]
Julia Donaldson, Sara Ogilvie, Lemn Sissay, Ingrid Persaud and Jasbinder Bilan have won prizes at the Indie Book Awards, held as part of Independent Bookshop Week's celebrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-26 13:47:44 UTC ]
Hachette and its authors, incuding Juno Dawson, Brit Bennett and Libby Page, are championing indie booksellers in a social media campaign to support Independent Bookshop Week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-19 08:06:16 UTC ]
Online indie retailer Bookshop.org is calling for publishers and authors to link to independent bookshops and its own site for the duration of Independent Bookshop Week (IBW). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-05-10 23:36:00 UTC ]
Initial plans for this year's Independent Bookshop Week have been announced with Cressida Cowell designing a celebratory tote bag, a special Brian Bilston poem and early releases. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-03-01 07:02:04 UTC ]
Will browsing be allowed, or will we have to judge a book by its cover? With Waterstones and some indie shops set to open on 15 June, Alison Flood finds out what the plan isMelissa Davies had planned to fulfil a lifelong dream and open her independent bookshop, Pigeon Books, in Southsea, at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-06-12 06:00:14 UTC ]
Hamnet author Maggie O'Farrell, How I Live Now writer Meg Rosoff and Waterstones children's laureate Cressida Cowell will feature during Independent Bookshop Week, online for the first time this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-09 22:22:45 UTC ]
Little Tiger is to publish a picture book celebrating the work of key workers, to raise money for the NHS during Independent Bookshop week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-05-26 01:38:15 UTC ]
The pandemic has thrown publishing and booksellers into crisis – and left customers struggling to obtain books when they most want them. But some in the industry sense an opportunity to drag it into the 21st centuryOn 18 March, Emma Corfield-Walters received the news that for the second year... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-05-10 08:00:20 UTC ]
The winners of the regional and country round of the Independent Bookshop of the Year Award have been announced, with nine shops in contention for an overall prize of £5,000. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 14:37:10 UTC ]
Authors including Cressida Cowell, Damian Barr and Sophie Hannah will take part in Independent Bookshop Week (IBW). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-05 23:53:15 UTC ]
The British Book Awards, or Nibbies, have revealed the regional shortlists for the 2020 Independent Bookshop of the Year with a record 49 bookshops from nine regions across the UK and Ireland vying to be named the country’s best indie retailer for books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-02-18 22:49:23 UTC ]
A new independent bookshop has opened in Barnsley, run by a mother and son team who became fed up watching the big chains leave their town. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 02:33:27 UTC ]