Fundraiser sends more than 5,000 books to Ethiopia’s largest library
Back in January 2022, a new library was opened Ethiopia’s capital of Addis Ababa. Named Abrehot, which is Amharic for enlightenment, it is largest in the country on a plot 19,000… Read more »
East London charity celebrates 7000th book bike delivery
A charity offering books to deprived households in several East London boroughs has this week celebrated its 7000th drop-off—and they’ve all been delivered by bicycle. BookBike was established by Emdad… Read more »
Lost Charlotte Brontë manuscript sold for $1.25 million
Best known for her classic Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë’s juvenilia remains a neglected but significant part of her literary canon. From childhood she was writing stories and poems, alongside and often… Read more »
Book Aid For Ukraine auctions off publishing goodies raising relief funds
The publishing industry continues to band together against Putin, launching Book Aid for Ukraine. Organised by Hayley Steed, literary agent at the Madeleine Milburn Agency, Book Aid for Ukraine auctioned off over… Read more »
Little Toller and Bluemoose unite to aid Ukraine
It is easy to feel helpless in times like these. What can we realistically do to help in a small way, as an estimated two million people flee Ukraine? How… Read more »
Fantasy author raises $25 million on Kickstarter to self-publish 4 new novels
Brandon Sanderson has just created the number one Kickstarter project of all time. Backed by over 110,000 people, more than $25 million dollars has been pledged as of time of writing … with 23… Read more »
Rare sculptures by the ‘Bookish Banksy’ are up for auction
It all began back in March 2011 when staff at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh noticed a stunning paper sculpture made from an old book had mysteriously appeared on a table. The… Read more »
Kickstarter launched for new online literary magazine Fictionable
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 »
York school crowdfunds for ‘magical’ reading cottage
Hot on the heels of last week’s juicy book-box scandal, Yorkshire pops up on our radars again today—but this time for altogether more wholesome reasons. Carr Junior School in Acomb,… Read more »
Phoenix’s Mission-driven Bookstore Stays Open with Community Support
Almost exactly a year ago, we wrote about how Palabras–Phoenix, AZ’s first bilingual bookstore–needed our help. At that point, Palabras was a few-year-old bookstore and community space with all kinds… Read more »