The 24-Hour Book

Putting paid to notions that it takes years to write a book (damn! There goes my excuse) is the 24 Hour Book Project, a groundbreaking new initiative that’s challenging a bunch of writers, editors and publishers to take a book from pie-in-the-sky concept to published material in JUST ONE DAY. The brainchild of the folks [...]

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Bookshops in Blue Plaques Thriller

  One of Charing Cross’s past crime novel hubs finds itself embroiled in its very own mystery. Murder One, which saw its last spy thriller creep out of its doors back in January after 20 years of touting furtive thrills, and its Charing Cross companion Shipley, a specialist in art books that has also permanently [...]

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Get in on the Bloomsbury set

Nigh on a century since some of modern literature’s finest thinkers, writers and party throwers peopled its pretty gated squares, Bloomsbury’s still shaking its bookish tailfeather. And before my Virginia Woolf obsession triggers claims of bias, just check out the indie comic bookshop Gosh! Comics opposite the British Museum, of which one reviewer on Trustedplaces.com wrote: [...]

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The Big Green Bookshop

Congratulations and the bumps to The Big Green Bookshop in London’s Wood Green, which turns one this week. The indie book seller opened its doors in the wake of the local Waterstones shutting up shop because, apparently, “people in Wood Green don’t read.” This video of the Big Green volunteers (uploaded by the Big Green [...]

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