Just the other day we wrote about the book that was perhaps the publishing story of 2020—Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann—and the galvanizing effect it was having on our friends at Porter Square Books.… Read more »

In just ten years nearly a fifth of the UK’s libraries have closed, reports Alison Flood for the Guardian. Correspondingly, “the number of paid librarians has also plummeted” (from 24,000 to… Read more »

Independent bookshops, unite! The Booksellers Association (BA), a membership organisation for all booksellers in the UK & Ireland, representing over 95% of bookshops, is launching a scheme to promote one… Read more »

Back in July 2018 we reported that only 1% of children’s books in the UK depict Black And Minority Ethnic main characters (BAME), and almost a year later, it seems… Read more »

Would you call causal transphobia “cheerful vulgarity” or inexcusable discrimination? Writer Gareth Roberts has discovered the consequences of oversharing on social media when tweets he made back in September 2017… Read more »

Imagine only having three books to carry you through seven months—and having to share them with your companions. Such was the luck of the men of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s… Read more »

On Wednesday, the UK became the first country in the world to declare a national climate emergency. This comes after weeks of protests took places across the UK and other European… Read more »

Daphne du Maurier is perhaps best known for her novel Rebecca, and her short story “The Birds.” The former won the 1939 National Book Award, and both received major film adaptations… Read more »

Forget to grab your book on the way out the door? Fear not, commuters, a solution could be coming your way. This week, short-story vending machines are being installed at… Read more »

About ten days ago we wrote that Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life was being pulled from a major New Zealand bookstore chain in the wake the anti-Muslim attacks in Christchurch. On a… Read more »