Blogs

We need more modesty, more money and more collaboration

David Reynolds, director at Old Street Publishing

We are in a time of major change – following the brutal, televised murder of George Floyd – and it goes without saying that the... Read more

Lockdown diaries: the education entrepreneur

By Jenny Baldwin

Founder at SHAPES

I was in the Soho Theatre last May, watching comedian Rob Auton perform ‘The Talk Show’. He told a great joke. It’s hard working from... Read more

What the Clarke Award data tells us about diversity

By Stewart Hotston

Author at Rebellion Publishing

This article has some relatively good news and then some particularly bad news. First the good news. Of 121 submissions to the Clarke Award in... Read more

Reaching for the universal

By Isabelle Dupuy

Author at Jacaranda Books

Last week I had the honour of being a panelist on a webinar about publishing values in 2020. I listened to the various publishers, both big... Read more

This may not destroy you

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

In Michaela Coel’s excellent BBC TV series “I May Destroy You”, her character Arabella’s journey concludes in a bookshop with the launch of her self-published... Read more

Libraries could be leaders once again

By Tim Coates

Campaigner and advisor at Libraries

As they try to re-open, public libraries have two big problems and three large advantages. The first problem, obviously, is that they have to be... Read more

Freedom of expression is complex, challenging - and crucial

By Daniel Gorman

Director at English PEN

It feels as if we’re at a critical moment regarding discussion of free expression in the UK and the US. #cancelculture has been trending on... Read more

Why the survival of bookshops must matter to us all

By Meryl Halls

Managing director at Booksellers Association

Bookshops have been a bellwether measure during this crisis. The media hunger for information on the recovery of bookshops has been insatiable, and the outpouring... Read more

When all is said, what is being done? Introducing the Black Agents & Editors’ Group

By Marianne Tatepo

Commissioning editor at Ebury

The global if tragically-induced surge of the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked vital conversations. Yet, what was revelatory for so many in our industry... Read more

On the come up

By Philip Jones

Editor at The Bookseller

Last week The Stage magazine reported that UK theatre stood on a precipice, without government help or a reopening plan; on the BBC’s “Front Row”, the conductor... Read more

Kidfluencers hold more power than ever

By Georgia Henry

Campaign executive at Rocket

In the current climate, with schools still partially closed and the majority of all social activity happening through a screen of some description, it is no... Read more

What we've learnt about lockdown reading

By Jacob Cockcroft

Co-founder at The Pigeonhole

The past few months have restricted physical access to bookshops, interrupted supply chains and created a raft of logistical complexities for the publishing industry. Even... Read more

Lockdown diaries: the festival programmer

By Lyndsey Fineran

Programme and commissions manager at Cheltenham Literature Festival

This spring/summer was meant to look very different (a statement that could be applied to literally any person on the planet, I know, but bear... Read more

Rethinking on (not) publishing class

By Nicola Wilson

Associate Professor of Book and Publishing Studies at University of Reading

In Bluemoose Books' first online deli a couple of weeks ago, writer Heidi James revealed some uncomfortable truths. She’d been told early on by a... Read more

The book industry needs to take responsibility for transforming itself

By Joy Francis

Executive Director/Founder at Words of Colour

It would have been hard to have missed last week’s digital launch of Rethinking ‘Diversity’ in Publishing. The report - the first of its kind... Read more

By Jenny Baldwin

By Stewart Hotston

By Isabelle Dupuy

By Philip Jones

By Tim Coates

By Daniel Gorman

By Meryl Halls

By Marianne Tatepo

By Philip Jones

By Georgia Henry

By Jacob Cockcroft

By Lyndsey Fineran

By Nicola Wilson

By Joy Francis

The Bookseller's Publishing Calendar 2020

Books in the Media's Book of the Week

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Rethinking 'Diversity' in Publishing

"Choose the high street. Choose a book. Preferably choose a printed one from a bookseller"

Ones to Watch: Big books of the autumn

The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

7 Ways

by Jamie Oliver

Think Like a Monk

by Jay Shetty

The Guest List

by Lucy Foley

The Boy from the Woods

by Harlan Coben

Once Upon A Tyne

by Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly

Zero Negativity

by Ant Middleton

The Testaments

by Margaret Atwood

Those Who Are Loved

by Victoria Hislop

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

by Charlie Mackesy