Blogs

Connection issues

Nelle Andrew Agent at RML

Nelle Andrew explores how we can rebuild connections in a post-lockdown world Read more

Old trade, new futures

Fleur Sinclair Owner, Sevenoaks Bookshop

The New Futures Initiative - launched at the end of September and announced in The Bookseller - is a scheme to reach out to... Read more

Prior knowledge

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

The appointment of Penguin General m.d. Joanna Prior to run Pan Macmillan after its current c.e.o. Anthony Forbes Watson leaves that role is a big... Read more

From access to impact

Sophie Goldsworthy Director of content strategy and acquisition at Oxford University Press

Digital content and learning is nothing new - but the pandemic has accelerated existing trends, cramming as much as a decade’s worth of digital evolution into... Read more

Allies, step it up

Anna Vaught Author

I am struggling to condense everything that troubles me about recent events in our industry... Read more

Lending support

Penny Batchelor Author

In the publishing industry’s rush for book shop sales it’s easy to forget that the public library service is a huge consumer of books, providing reading... Read more

Not leading the way

Anmol Irfan

The publication of books on leadership and workplace success by women of colour is a rarity, meaning the discourse available is very limited Read more

Open letter: on booksellers

Bridget Collins

In praise of booksellers and of bookshops by Bridget Collins, author. Read more

The sensitivity stereotype

Lucy Nichol Author

I used the term ‘sensitivity readers’ for the first time the other day, and I immediately felt angry at myself... Read more

Lessons from Clanchy

Tara Tobler

The response to the criticism of Kate Clanchy’s memoir was a moral failure on the part of white publishing—and an artistic failure too... Read more

Nightmare before Christmas

Benedicte Page

The Nightmare before Christmas - just how are supply issues and shortages affecting bookshops... Read more

Yinka, where is your cover?

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Author

In her series of columns Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, debut author of Yinka, Where is Your Huzband? (Viking), reveals all about the reality behind the dream... Read more