How Did We Read in the Past? by Abigail Williams
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the birth and evolution of a commercial literary culture and the expansion of popular literacy, while also promoting the idea…
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Bookshop of the Month – Libreria Bookshop, London
For February’s bookshop of the month, we make our way to Shoreditch, London – where Libreria calls home. Recently opened, with bright and exquisite…
Clive James – in Conversation
‘My response to books has improved throughout my life, until now, finally, I am fit to be a proper student.’ In August 2015 Yale…
Bookshop of the Month: The National Theatre Bookshop
At the very heart of London’s South Bank – famous for its striking Brutalist concrete architecture – you will find our Bookshop of the…
The Ceaseless Curiosity of Alberto Manguel: An Interview
What drives us to learn? How do books help us understand the world? How does language fail us? We sat down with reader and…
Curiosity: The Question of ‘Why?’
Alberto Manguel is a tour de force when it comes to reading, and in fact all things book related. Best described as ‘a reader’,…
Bookshop of the Month: Topping & Company Booksellers, St Andrews
Our Bookshop of the Month heads north for April, up to the Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews. The shop is independently run and…
Bookshop of the month: Lutyens and Rubinstein
Notting Hill: home of the Notting Hill Carnival, Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts’ bookshop-haunting alter egos, Portobello Road Market, and Lutyens & Rubinstein bookshop – Yale’s…