With 100-plus events held in-store each year and a potential upsize on the horizon, Nottingham-based indie Five Leaves is going from strength to strength.
As well as all the normal enjoyment of seeing your book on a shop shelf, I’m also slightly amazed when I stop to think that it was only 12 months ago that Iberia was in the same notepad I’m yet to fill.
The m.d. of the Booksellers Association pays tribute to its members and the shop-floor staff who have ensured bookshops remain central to high streets.
It might seem odd for a magazine called The Bookseller to have a dedicated issue for “booksellers”, but this week’s issue is a dedicated one for, well, booksellers.
The New Futures Initiative - launched at the end of September and announced in The Bookseller - is a scheme to reach out to individuals from underrepresented groups and encourage them - through mentoring and tangible support - to open a bricks and mortar bookshop.
The pandemic altered where readers bought books and the types of titles they purchased—and it’s time publishers used their profits to help bookshops out.
Laura Steven answers our questions about her haunting gothic novel Every Exquisite Thing (Electric Monkey), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2024.
This week BookTok creators reflected on the benefits of — and barriers to — reading in light of the survey conducted by The Reading Agency that found half of UK adults do not read on a regular basis.
This week Ferdia Lennon discussed his prize-winning debut novel and Claire Daverley reflected on the publication of her contemporary fiction debut, Talking at Night.
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