Bookshop Day 2024 - A bookseller for a day
Last month, I took part in the Booksellers Association's Shopfloor Publishers Scheme, a project that invites publishers to spend a day working on the shop-floor...Read More
Bookshop Day 2024 - Our favourite bookshops
Bookshop Day (12th October 2024) is an annual celebration of all bookshops in the UK, run by the Booksellers Association. The campaign aims to highlight the positive...Read More
The sword is not enough - conflict resolution in the Middle East
What are the primary factors driving the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict and how does it fit into the broader Middle East tensions? Two nationalist movements lay...Read More
Understanding the life and loves of Bridget Jones
A report on the BBC news website by Noor Nanji (5 October 2024), following an appearance by Hugh Grant on the Graham Norton show, announced...Read More
Step into a realm of magic with our new reading list that delves into the history of witches and witchcraft. Embracing the allure and enigma...Read More 
The Sixteenth Century reading list
To coincide with the Sixteenth Century Society's annual conference in Toronto this October, we've curated a reading list featuring new and bestselling books that explore...Read More
World Alzheimer's Day: James Baldwin, my father, and me
I wish I’d been there but, as usual, I wasn’t. My father, Richard Field, was not a patient man. But in November 2022, he spent...Read More
Alexandrina Vanke on The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia
Six months on from the publication of The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia: Engaging in everyday struggle, author Alexandrina Vanke reflects on its...Read More
Ageing and new intimacies - podcast
Author Sarah Milton talks to Miranda Melcher about her new book Ageing and new intimacies: Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene, on...Read More
Listen to author Sean Redmond discuss his book The loneliness room: A creative ethnography of loneliness with Miranda Melcher on the New Books Network podcast....Read More