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It was the early 80s, and on an autumn day in Edinburgh’s New Town, a young man appeared at the top of the steep stairs that led down to the city’s gay bookshop, Lavender Menace. He had just been made redundant and wanted to donate part of his severance pay to the shop. “He gave us £50,” remembers Sigrid Nielsen, who ran the bookshop with her business partner Bob Orr. “I still wonder who he was.”Lavender Menace bookshop was founded in 1982, two years after homosexuality between men over the age of 21 was legalised in…

“Hello, Bookstore.” That’s how Matthew Tannenbaum answers the phone a dozen times a day at his independent bookshop in Lenox, Massachusetts, always with the same gentle, curious voice. (He’s an old hippy; you could imagine him played by Mark Rylance in the movie of his life.)Booklovers will instantly feel at home in this documentary and in Tannenbaum’s store – a warm inviting hang-out, a little shabby with comfy armchairs to settle down in, children curled up on the floor noses in books. It’s clearly a bookshop full of…

It’s a boat, it’s a barge, it’s a bookshop. Word on the Water is a bookstore in a 1920s Dutch barge on Regent’s Canal. It’s moored at Granary Square in London. (Courtesy Word on the Water) Waterstones and WH Smith may stock thousands of books on their shelves across London, but their ambience doesn’t hold a candle to Word on the Water, a 1920s Dutch barge that has been bobbing on the waters of Regent’s Canal since 2011. The brainchild of Paddy Screech, Jonathan Privett, and Stephane Chaudat, Word on the Water…

The London Review Bookshop has launched a prize for “lively, unusual or otherwise original” writing by 11-14 year olds, offering young people the chance to have their work published.The Martha Mills Young Writers’ prize has been set up in memory of the daughter of Merope Mills, editor of the Guardian’s Saturday magazine, and Paul Laity, an editor at the London Review of Books (LRB). Martha died in 2021. Her parents said that it was Martha’s “great curiosity and imagination” that inspired the new award.The Martha Mills…

A former bookseller at London’s largest Arabic bookshop, which closed at the end of 2022, has set up a crowdfunding appeal to launch a new bookshop and community space.Al Saqi Books in Bayswater opened in 1978, and sold books on the Middle East and north Africa in English, and on all subjects in Arabic. It closed on 31 December, with bookshop director Salwa Gaspard saying it was a “difficult decision that had to be made because of recent economic challenges, such as the sharp increases in Arabic-language book prices”.The…

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The number of independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland climbed to a 10-year high in 2022, as the book trade defied the odds in an otherwise brutal year for high street retailers.The lifestyle changes brought about by the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns were a boon for the book trade, as Britons with more time on their hands read more and sought out bookshops when they reopened.There are now 1,072 independent bookshops after the industry enjoyed a sixth consecutive year of growth, according to the Booksellers Association…

Bob Topp, the retiring owner of Hermitage Bookshop, found his happy ending when couple and new owners Renee and Ian Colle approached him to purchase one of Denver’s oldest independent bookstores. The three hosted a spring soirée to commemorate their new chapter Wednesday evening, with long-time patrons and community members flocking to the Cherry Creek location at 290 Fillmore St. to sip wine, shake hands and buy discounted books. Topp first established his store in 1973 after acquiring a used book shop, and the Colles…