It’s time to be bold

On my various travels around the world, I find myself dwelling repeatedly in these troubled times about the social and economic value of books and how we as an industry could be doing more to promote this collectively. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]

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June Religion Bestsellers: Searching for Guidance

Readers gravitated to books promising resources, advice, encouragement — or escape —in troubled times. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Amazon's VAT windfall

From 1 May, bringing forward a plan originally scheduled for the end of the year, the Government has removed VAT from e-books. It was a change lobbied for by many writers, as well as the big publishers. They rallied under the stirring slogan ‘No Tax on Learning’. This is a good thing, surely,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-04 08:40:06 UTC ]
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In ‘A Long Petal of the Sea,’ Isabel Allende delivers another sentimental epic set in troubled times

In her relentlessly linear narrative of more than 60 years of Spanish and Chilean history, Allende takes great pains to describe the real, lived effects of two dictatorships. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Kingsolver's next novel to speak to 'our troubled times'

Faber is set to release a "major" Barbara Kingsolver novel later this year, entitled Unsheltered. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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It’s time to be bold

On my various travels around the world, I find myself dwelling repeatedly in these troubled times about the social and economic value of books and how we as an industry could be doing more to promote this collectively. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2017-06-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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