We welcome proposals that engage with all forms of the bookselling space—physical, virtual, historical, social, communal, commercial, and imagined—and encourage transcultural, transnational, and intersectional perspectives.
The Bookshop explores the evolution of bookselling from the cramped collectors' shops frequented by Samuel Pepys to the radical feminist bookshops of the 70s, the rise of monolithic chains and the […]
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 […]
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 […]