My life has always revolved around bookshops. My earlier memories are of my mum bringing us into our local indie to spend our paper 5 punt National Book Tokens and I would be in awe of the selection of worlds I could travel to. In 4th year I ended up doing a fateful two-week stint for work experience where the most I was hoping for was a summer job, but ended up working there part time for 6 years. That …
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Halfway into my week’s holiday at the end of March, our bookshops closed due to Covid-19. It was unwelcome but not unexpected news. The stress which had made concentrating on …
I often get parents coming in, looking for recommendations for the young readers in their lives. No matter if the child has just started school, or has been reading for …
With the world held hostage to the deadly virus, getting to travel anywhere now would be a mere dream. But I was lucky enough to visit Vietnam just before the …
I, like many people, get stuck in a slump in between books. Sometimes I struggle to go from one amazing book in one genre to a completely different one. My …
When I started working for Dubray, my friends encouraged me to set up a book club. Apparently I was now “an expert” (their words, not mine) in all things literary. …
What does a bookseller do when they are not in their natural habitat, the bookshop? Well, this bookseller spends a large chunk of their time off reading. The only downside …
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