Houston, we have a problem: how bookshops might prepare for reopening

Fifty years ago this week, the world watched the unfolding drama of Apollo 13, the space mission hit by an explosion en route to the Moon. The astronauts - using the lunar lander as a lifeboat - endured plunging temperatures, carbon monoxide poisoning, illness and dangerous uncertainty as they swung round the Moon and coaxed the damaged craft back to Earth. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

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