The tiny but award-winning independent book - @TheEdinburghBookshop - is moving! Only a couple of blocks, but to much bigger premises.
It's a lot more than we planned for & will take a lot of work to make it ready, so we'll be adding fundraisers to help, & you can see some architect designs & plans on the bookshop site now https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/newshop
Chatting with a visiting Kiwi author, Rachael King, in the bookshop today, she recognised me - turned out I had chaired her fellow Kiwi scribe at @edbookfest a few years ago, and she remembered me!
It really is a small planet (especially the literary part of it!)....
We're having a Fabulous Friday with our little readers and special Storytime guest, Lillias Kinsman-Chauvet , reading Too Snappy to Wear a Nappy from Boxer Books.
We have singing, reading and making paper puppets!!!!!
#WhatTheGruffalosReading : the G-Man is chortling over Nelly Buchet & Andrea Zuill's delightful Dog Vs Strawberry. Dog's expressions alone are cracking up all of us.
#WhatWereReading :
Omar Abed & Hatem Aly's picture book The Book That Almost Rhymed has totally delighted our little bookshop crew! Yes of course we read it out loud to each other!
#WhatWereReading : Joe enjoyed
Roger Highfield's Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work from DK Books, exploring his life through the objects in his study, from scientific papers to Monty Python memorabilia to photos from his cameoes in Star Trek and the Big Bang Theory.
We are totally delighted to be shortlisted alongside some of our fabulous bookselling chums for the British Book Awards, alongside Typewronger, Atkinson Pryce, Far From the Madding Crowd, The Book Nook, The Highland Bookshop, The Bookmark,Ullapool Bookshop, Night Owl Books and Heron & Willow
We won last year, and have won a couple of times before, which was fabulous. And even nicer because we're sharing the list with a lot of great Indy bookselling chums all around the country.
Today, we launch the new and updated DRM-free bookshop list, with tools to help readers filter by type of shop, by book format, by the date shops were added, and even search by shop name.
John La Rose was born in Trinidad and was a poet, essayist, publisher, filmmaker, trade unionist, and cultural and political activist. In 1966, with his partner, Sarah White, he set up one of the first Black British bookshops in the UK, New Beacon Books. His wide-ranging contribution to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, as well as cultural change, is unparalleled in the history of the black experience in Britain.
And, in my ongoing efforts to visit all the indie bookshops in Edinburgh, I got this wee stack from Transreal Fiction near the National Museum which specialises in SFF. Some good imports which you don't normally see but not cheap as a result! I'll definitely revisit.
🇪🇸 Madrid’s OLDEST bookshop, the San Ginés Book Shop
A stone’s throw from one of the most famous places in #Madrid for churros with chocolate is this picturesque #bookstore. The San Ginés #BookShop is actually one of the oldest #bookshops in #Spain
It is situated in the scenic Pasadizo de San Ginés, between Calle Arenal and Calle Mayor, near the parish of the same name and Chocolatería de San Ginés
Its beginnings can be traced to the 17th century when #Diego_Logroño ⏩
January can be a quiet month for new releases, but this year we have a smorgasbord of new fiction in paperback & hardback to tickle your book-browsing fancy, from Alexander McCall Smith and Kim SHerwood to Louise Welsh, Ali Millar and Hannah Kaner.
Advert on Birdsite from Penguin, probably the biggest publisher in the world now, for "last minute gifts"... From fecking Spamazon.
Just no, Bezos does not need advertising from a publisher. Bookshops, however, the places which make publishers what they are, do. Sigh.
We work hard to keep local bookshops a thing, we constantly promote & recommend writers. Point book buyers to us, Penguin, not Dr Evil's less charming cousin.
📘 Morgana Best
📘 Black Josie Press
📘 Time Bomb Comics
📘 Splice
📘 Mina V. Esguerra
📘 Shacklebound Books
📘 DieDieBooks
📘 tRaum Books
📘 Novae from Nebulae Press
Find these and over 300 more bookshops at Libreture! 💜
It's #BookshopDay ! Please support your local Indy bookshops - Jeff Bezos doesn't need money for another yacht, we pay our fair share of taxes and also offer a community service.
Yes, I am biased, being a bookseller, but it's still true ! Indy bookshops are a wonderful thing.
Here's a regularly updated list of online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs, usually in multiple formats for all your favourite devices.
Here is a list of over 400 online bookshops that sell DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines, and RPGs, usually in multiple formats for any of your favourite devices.