Books Are My Bag has teamed up with The Busking Project to launch The Bookshop Buskers. The initiative will see buskers and street theatre bring “high streets to life” on Saturday 10th October as part of the industry-wide Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The partnership’s aim is to provide customers with a lively shopping experience and to remind them that high streets are dynamic social hubs that bring communities together. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Books Are My Bag has teamed up with The Busking Project to launch The Bookshop Buskers. The initiative will see buskers and street theatre bring “high streets to life” on Saturday 10th October as part of the industry-wide Books Are My Bag (BAMB) campaign. The partnership’s aim is to provide... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A new series is stepping into the fraught territory of Northern Ireland in the 70s by telling the real-life story of a woman abducted by the IRA. Its creators talk about truth, reconciliation and trying to depict both sides of the conflict“To be honest, I’d always thought of the Troubles as a... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-11-12 11:00:55 UTC ]
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McDonald's is giving anime and manga fans the chance to visit fictional chain WcDonald's with a campaign kicking off Feb. 26 in more than 30 markets around the world. An obvious riff off the "Golden Arches," WcDonald's has appeared in many memorable shows from anime and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2024-02-21 14:00:00 UTC ]
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An exhibition about the bohemian set’s “philosophy of fashion” goes deeper than just clothes. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-09-15 15:51:18 UTC ]
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Sammy Harkham's epic graphic novel took 14 years to create and captures a Los Angeles — and a movie business — that no longer exists. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2023-06-08 13:00:48 UTC ]
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For years, Gene Luen Yang was convinced a single character in his groundbreaking graphic novel would doom any attempt at an adaptation. What changed? Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2023-05-24 09:00:29 UTC ]
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How this little-remembered "robber baron" shorted stock, collected railroads, caused a financial panic -- and amassed a fortune. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2022-09-16 10:00:15 UTC ]
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Bookshops are playing a "vital" role in the recovery and regeneration of high streets in towns across the UK and Ireland, early findings from a survey have found. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 12:21:31 UTC ]
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On this day in 1935, the highly acclaimed poet Mary Oliver was born in Maple Heights, Ohio. Oliver, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and later the National Book Award for Poetry in 1992, was by all accounts a private person who sought solace in the natural world. Throughout the course of her... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2021-09-10 15:24:16 UTC ]
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They deal with homework, teenage romance — and often, larger burdens, Elly Fishman writes. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-08-27 12:00:00 UTC ]
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We asked a number of authors and illustrators known for their STEM and STEAM biographies to tell us more about how they work on these books. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-08-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Bring great-great-great grandma back to life using deep learning. If you’ve ever seen a Harry Potter movie and were enchanted by those movie photos seen in the world’s newspapers and on mantles, you’re going to want to give a new tool called Deep Nostalgia from genealogy site MyHeritage a... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2021-03-05 06:24:58 UTC ]
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Barrington Stoke will publish The Humiliations of Welton Blake, a new teen novella from Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize winner Alex Wheatle. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-28 09:36:51 UTC ]
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The writer was drowned at the age of 44, but he left three novels which have come to represent the decline of the British Empire. Continue reading at The Conversation
[ The Conversation | 2020-09-03 13:13:15 UTC ]
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Michael Joseph is building anticipation for Alex Pavesi's debut Eight Detectives with a series of innovative Zoom-hosted murder mysteries for retailers, literary festivals, journalists and bloggers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-28 00:05:23 UTC ]
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The following is excerpted from The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel. * __________________________________ From The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Copyright © 1925 by Charles Scribner’s Sons. Copyright renewed 1953 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan. Adapted Text and... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-07-09 08:47:44 UTC ]
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The Booksellers Association is calling on customers and the trade to rally behind retailers and support bookshops, as the coronavirus outbreak hits the high street. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-17 03:39:11 UTC ]
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Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announce temporary relief from business rates for high-street shops at his first Budget today. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-11 06:20:53 UTC ]
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The government will announce cuts to business rates in the Queen’s Speech today (19th December) in a bid to revive the high street. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-12-19 04:26:38 UTC ]
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The artist Jim Kay, whose latest book is “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,” surrounds himself with nature when he draws unnatural creatures like dragons, goblins and trolls. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-11-06 10:00:42 UTC ]
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