As well as all the normal enjoyment of seeing your book on a shop shelf, I’m also slightly amazed when I stop to think that it was only 12 months ago that Iberia was in the same notepad I’m yet to fill.
The m.d. of the Booksellers Association pays tribute to its members and the shop-floor staff who have ensured bookshops remain central to high streets.
It might seem odd for a magazine called The Bookseller to have a dedicated issue for “booksellers”, but this week’s issue is a dedicated one for, well, booksellers.
The New Futures Initiative - launched at the end of September and announced in The Bookseller - is a scheme to reach out to individuals from underrepresented groups and encourage them - through mentoring and tangible support - to open a bricks and mortar bookshop.
The pandemic altered where readers bought books and the types of titles they purchased—and it’s time publishers used their profits to help bookshops out.
The uncanny weaves its way through well-received novels from Melissa Albert and M John Harrison. Non-fiction titles from Andrea Wulf and Professor Darby Saxbe drew attention.
Following the release of the BookTok’s Community 2026 Summer Reading List and ahead of next week’s summer solstice on 21st June, this week BookTok creators selected their top reads for the summer.
The writer and academic’s debut memoir tells his story, from non-verbal child written off by experts to the youngest Black professor in Cambridge University’s history.
Children should be involved in decisions that directly affect them and it is vital that their voices are heard and considered when evaluating which books are made available to them.
Children should be involved in decisions that directly affect them and it is vital that their voices are heard and considered when evaluating which books are made available to them.
Why Independent Bookshop Week really does make a difference
Access to books is not the same as access to reading