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Take it from me, book shop customers are often a curious lot. There’s the entire-book-readers; the food leavers; spine breakers; letter writers; queue jumpers and, my personal favourite, the “take… Read more »

“UK children pick ‘anxiety’ as their word of 2021”—blares a headline in The Guardian. Of course they did, we mutter morosely. Have you seen Euphoria? The kids aren’t alright. But… Read more »

The directors of the UK’s first book shop and publisher dedicated to Black writing, New Beacon Books, have thanked supporters for a “lifeline” after a crowdfunding campaign saved their premises… Read more »

It’s a storyline that might have come from the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien himself. On December 19 it was reported that a thief had made off with rare first editions… Read more »

Last month three of our spring 2022 authors joined us for a day of virtual events with librarians across the country. Now, you can watch for yourselves!      … Read more »

The global COVID pandemic may have devastated many areas of life, but it has not quashed our love for reading. Figures from the Publishers Association showed that fiction sales for… Read more »

Happy 2022 to everyone! We thought we’d start off the new year by taking a close look at the logistics behind the supply-chain issues that have bedeviled the industry in… Read more »

An unimaginable loss for “one of the largest online and real bookshops in the North West,” based in Flintshire, UK, has been transformed into a hopeful new beginning, thanks to… Read more »

The Melville House holiday sale continues with 30% off all books! The holidays are fast approaching and the last day to place orders that will arrive before Christmas is Thursday 12/16… Read more »

It’s that time again where we look back at the words we’ve used most, seen most, and said “do I want to know what that means?” about most this year: Collins Dictionary… Read more »

Stellar news for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series this week, as a raft of his audiobooks, newly recorded by a host of famous names, are set to grace… Read more »

Among the many hated and incompetent politicians in the UK, Matt Hancock rides high. Serving as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from July 2018, he resigned in June 2021 after… Read more »

Have you ever felt like you need to be in three places at once at work? Well, spare a thought for the cast of Rock/Paper/Scissors.  As reported this week in What’s On… Read more »

The Booksellers Association (BA) and Bookshop.org launched New Futures this autumn, a programme offering individuals from underrepresented communities across the UK the chance to develop their own bookshop business alongside industry experts.… Read more »

We were rooting around in the digital archives of the Brooklyn Public Library—an eccentric if benign habit practiced by some ’round these parts—when we came across an intriguing essay concerning… Read more »

A few weeks back we rounded up the printed exploits of Ian Fleming’s fictional spy James Bond, who recently returned to the big screen in No Time to Die, Daniel Craig’s final… Read more »

Last November, it was announced that Bertelsmann has agreed a $2.2bn deal to buy Simon & Schuster from owner ViacomCBS. The deal would see Penguin Random House (PRH) merge with Simon & Schuster (S&S), meaning the… Read more »

This week the Newcastle Chronicle brought heartening news from Northumberland, UK, as local mum and Usborne Publishing sales partner Rachel Shayler donated £300 worth of children’s books to a women’s refuge in… Read more »

    The Bloodless Boy by Robert J. Lloyd   Technically this one doesn’t come out until Tuesday, but we’re already spotting it on shelves in a lot of stores.… Read more »

Elizabeth Haigh is a London based chef who competed on MasterChef UK in 2011, and was the head chef at Hackney-based restaurant Pidgin when it earned a Michelin Star.  Now owner of the… Read more »

Earlier this week, readers in Northern Ireland were offered a remarkable reprieve from overdue library fines, with over 87,000 wiped from the Libraries NI system. As reported in The Belfast Telegraph and… Read more »

English comedian, actor, writer, and television personality, David Walliams, turned his hand to authoring children’s books in 2008 and has never looked back. His meteoric success has seen his stories embraced… Read more »

It may not look like much—a wooden bridge across a stream in Ashdown Forest, near Tunbridge Wells, UK, measuring around 30ft across. But it holds a special place in the… Read more »

Dear Librarians, Many of you might already know how important libraries have been in my life—I grew up in a town that didn’t have a bookstore until I was a… Read more »

We were lazing about our pied a terre on a weekend day, stunned by overconsumption of The Anatomy of Melancholy—or was it pro football?—scrolling through what a former world leader… Read more »

Remember “going to the movies”? No, me neither. But it seems like it’s a thing again, and following a Covid-plagued release schedule, James Bond is finally, finally back on our screens in No… Read more »

Queen Elizabeth II will become the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee in 2022. Ascending to the throne on 6 February 1952, her 70 years of service is nearing the… Read more »

How to explain Richard Osman to an American audience? This could be, ahem, pointless… Here goes: having grown up in Essex and studied at Cambridge University, Osman, a devoted disciple… Read more »

We have written in this space before about the supply chain issues that threaten all of manufacturing, merchandising, and retail—very much including books! The element of the current manufacturing landscape… Read more »

“Dyslexia, as I can attest to, does not go away. You don’t grow out of it.” So says Alistair Sims, founder of the newly-created BOTH Press, which has just published… Read more »