Category: book shops
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Joyous return to the Calder
In 2011 we were at the Calder launching Ways of Falling. This week, we returned to celebrate Janet H Swinney’s The Map of Bihar
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Basic Truths About Basic Income
Basic income and how we can make it happen – an evening with Guy Standing
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The 100-word Live Challenge
the 100-word challenge at Printed Matter Bookshop, celebrating the release of ‘Records, Rivers and Rats’ – prizewinning poetry and flash fiction from Earlyworks Press
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No news from anywhere
Remember the days when bookshops did not expect to be held personally responsible for, or assumed to be in agreement with, every line of every book in their shop?
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Pleasant distractions
As Shaun Bythell of Wigtown Bookshop demonstrates in the pages of his diary, people who depend on book sales for a living in the 21st century have a definite Black Books air about them.
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If you didn’t get your fingers in the sparkle jar right away…
First Greta Thunberg, then Chris Packham – What is this, ‘be mean to ASD people’ month? This is a re-posting of my piece about Chris Packham’s book, along with links to a petition defending him.
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Bookshops of the Borders
Bookshops of the Borders – NOT Borders Bookshops, which are (or were) something else.
Kay Green 