Open a Bookshop, what could possibly go wrong?

Here's our window. One of the local schools (Lea Valley) asked us to judge their T shirt competition recently. The kids had to design a ...

This book here. A Seriously Useful Author's Guide to Marketing and Publicising Books..... I'm not that keen on the cover, but this i...

Last Wednesday, Karen Maitland , author of the brilliant Company of Liars (reviewed here last year), came to our little shop to talk about,...

I went to this auspicious celebration of books n stuff last Tuesday. This 3 day event isn't really aimed at bookshops, which I know soun...

I'm going to the London Book Fair tomorrow. I'm going to cycle the 11.2 miles there and the 11.3 miles back (one way systems). If an...

That's french that is. Like the bloke who pressed the wrong button at Amazon recently. Maybe he was fatigue as well. Probably reading to...

I laugh and salute the person who did this. Ninjaink (for that is the person's name) produced this wonder. All hail Ninjaink

Last week saw the 50th anniversary of the death of Raymond Chandler. One of the true greats of crime writing. He influenced a whole new genr...

Sometimes it's just too busy to blog. Especially when you don't have a computer in front of you all day, and there are other things ...

Is there a worse weather? the drizzle/chilly combination is clearly not condusive with a happy and healthy life. Who invented drizzle? It...