With A. J. West, author of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World (Oneworld, 2026). A.J.West is a Sunday Times bestselling, multi-award-winning historical fiction novelist and historian. Prior to publication he was a breakfast host on BBC television news. He appears regularly on national television and radio programmes discussing literature, history and current affairs. His novel, […]
Bill Rees, Welsh writer, bookseller and former journalist, will talk about the vast changes in the second hand book world. It will be a kind of lament, which you may infer from the title.
Join Zoom Meeting https://ucl.zoom.us/j/96162693226?pwd=NZanduWmMmtJkMPHwOHFjZBmlkVIXf.1 Found on book stalls at railway stations, bus stops, and in Delhi’s book bazaars, these contemporary, ‘cheap’ love letter writing manuals in Hindi and English reiterate the need to write love. Their text and texture resonate with the materiality of their publishing and circulation. Like any other self-help pocketbook, they present […]