As the curtain raises on Independent Bookshop Week, Helen Dunmore argues that, despite the convenience of shopping online, readers need to browse real shelves packed with real booksThe 10 best independent bookshops in the world – our readers recommendWe read not only with our eyes, but with our hearts. Every sense is in play. We shiver with fear, weep, laugh aloud, blaze with anger, are seduced, aroused, enchanted. We read with our senses of taste and smell, with skin and brain and intuition. We read intellectually, emotionally, erotically. We read in order to understand our lives, to become what we are not and through this to question what we are. For a few hours we enter the minds and bodies of lovers, criminals, artists. We are insiders, present as latitude is defined or Anne Boleyn murdered. We enter the minds of explorers and scientists, even though we may not be able to do the maths. Ages fly before us, and we step on to other continents. Our identity shifts. We understand other languages, even if we do not speak them. We live in 16th-century London, or Hogwarts. We run on the moors with Cathy and Heathcliff. We are watched by Big Brother, and sense our own weakness in the face of implacable totalitarianism. Related: David Nicholls: Browsing bookshops then buying online is a 'genteel form of shoplifting' Related: Weird and wonderful bookshops worldwide – in pictures Related: A life in writing: Helen Dunmore I can give you no conception of my welcome here. There... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In an event billed as “A Fortunate Stage Talk,” actor Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser" and "How I Met Your Mother" fame, who currently stars as Count Olaf in the TV adaptation of "A Series of Unfortunate Events," will reunite with Chris Harris (no relation), who was the executive producer... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Five young adult book editors emphasized that the magic of books can change young people’s lives, even save the world, during this year’s YA book buzz panel. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookseller Simon Key has been snapped up to write a book with Head of Zeus, based on his parenting tweets. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshops have been praised by authors as “oases of intellectual and physical comfort” as the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award nominees have been released. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The publishing industry has rallied round to help the independent Big Green Bookshop after one of its owners sent out a desperate tweet appealing for customers because they were “seriously skint”. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bookseller Catherine Barter argues that radical bookshops are becoming more needed in the current political climate. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Exceeding even recent American triumphalism, a spate of bestsellers in Japan is reflecting a new national bent for self-congratulation. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Independent bookshop Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights is to launch a pop-up bookshop at Glastonbury Music Festival this summer in partnership with wholesaler Bertrams Books. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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McFly band member Tom Fletcher will publish his second middle grade novel for Penguin Random House in time for the Christmas market this October. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ian Nathan’s Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (HarperCollins) has soared into the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, displacing Mary Berry Everyday (BBC) atop both the overall and Hardback Non-Fiction charts. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Loganberry Books in Ohio has reorganised its fiction section so all titles by male writers now have their spines facing the wallA bookshop in Ohio has made a graphic illustration of the position of female writers by leaving only books by women visible to its customers. The change, made to mark... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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East London bookshop Libreria has launched a subscription scheme which will provide customers with a monthly choice of "low-profile, high-quality" fiction. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The number of independent bookshops in the UK has fallen for the 11th year in a row, according to the Booksellers Association’s annual membership figures, but the rate of closure has slowed. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On a call about its just-reported disappointing third-quarter financial performance, Barnes & Noble CEO Len Riggio said that although the company has found success with some new categories, it still hasn’t found a "magic bullet" to end the overall sales slide. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-03-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Actor Sir Derek Jacobi has spoken out against the imminent closure of the Samuel French Theatre Bookshop, which is to become online-only following a “crippling” hike in rent by its landlord. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Susan Hill has cancelled a bookshop appearance because of the shop's anti-Trump views and actions. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The last general bookshop in Wokingham is to close tomorrow (18th February) due to a decline in sales combined with increasingly high rates and rent. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Specialist theatre bookshop Samuel French has been forced to close after 34 years following a “crippling” hike in rent by its landlord. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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North London retailer the Big Green Bookshop is tweeting out every word of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Bloomsbury) to broadcaster Piers Morgan following his Twitter spat with its author J K Rowling. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sales through French bookshops declined by 0.5% in December from a year earlier. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2017-01-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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