Mary Beard was vetoed as British Museum trustee for her politics
Mary Beard, the famed classicist, Cambridge don, and author of reader favorites like SPQR and Women & Power was rejected by the UK government as an appointee to the board… Read more »
Booksellers Association remains optimistic about Amazon threat in annual conference
“Now is the time to shout louder than ever about the contribution bookshops make to society,” stated Nic Bottomley, Booksellers Association president, as reported in The Bookseller. At the Booksellers Association’s annual… Read more »
UK indies are talking about a retail consortium
Allison Flood, writing for the Guardian, is reporting that a group of about a hundred independent bookshops in the UK may form a retail consortium capable of competing with bigger chains like Waterstones,… Read more »
Trump is the worst kind of awkward
While Donald Trump’s reaction to a question posed by a BBC journalist during his press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May last Friday, and its alternate interpretations in the… Read more »
Why hasn’t a single Kurdish novel been published in English until now?
Can you name a single Kurdish fiction writer? Probably not. For anyone who thinks that the US and UK have made sufficient progress bringing foreign literature into translation, it may… Read more »
Here come the Brexit books…
It was inevitable. With the UK waiting to leave the EU, and Scotland waiting to leave the UK, publishers are looking to tell the inside story of the Brexit battle.… Read more »
Leave or remain: with Britain on the verge of a momentous decision, where does the book industry stand?
One of the biggest political decisions to face Britons in their lifetime is looming—the European Union referendum, with polling stations opening today, June 23rd. The British public will be voting on whether to… Read more »
Foyles bookstore returns to profit
The UK is now two-for-two on resuscitating its flagship bookselling franchises. Last year, James Daunt of Daunt Books led Waterstones back to the black (well, with a little help from a… Read more »
14,800 authors accidentally shortchanged in the UK
Whoops! A “manual input error” at the UK’s Public Lending Right (PLR), an organization that pays writers when their books are borrowed from libraries, accidentally underpaid 14,800 authors by a total… Read more »
UPDATE: Protestors hope to save London’s Feminist Library
A few weeks ago, we reported on the rent hike that threatens to evict London’s Feminist Library from Westminster Bridge Road, where it’s been offering crucial literature from the Women’s… Read more »