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5 Questions for Books On The Hill

Books On The Hill is an independent bookshop in Clevedon which is run by Dr. Alistair Sims and his partner, Chloe Smirk. Here, Alistair talks about the surprises and challenges of running a bookshop, as well as what they’re looking forward to in 2016. You can find their website here:… Read More

A note to booksellers from Amelia Freer

In Eat. Nourish. Glow., nutritional therapist and healthy eating expert Amelia Freer explains her 10 steps and provides over 25 enticing recipes to get you started on your path to optimum wellness. Here she tells you about how she got to where she is today and a little more about Eat Nourish… Read More

A Q&A with Elizabeth McKenzie

Elizabeth McKenzie’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. She lives in Santa Cruz, California. Her new novel, The Portable Veblen, is a riotously funny and deeply insightful adventure through capitalism, the medical industry, family, love, war and wedding-planning… Read More

A letter from Joanna Cannon, author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

Recently, my lovely publisher asked me to write a short piece about the story behind my book The Trouble With Goats and Sheep.  So many people have supported my writing, from the very beginning of this blog, so I thought you might like to read it too. It’s also… Read More

Recommended by Blackwell’s Edinburgh: Ice Like Fire, Demon Road and Fire Colour One

Lara Mieduniecki and Isla Macfarlane from Blackwell’s Bookshop in Edinburgh recommend a great selection of YA titles from 2015. Ice Like Fire by Sara Raasch It’s been three months since the Winterians were freed and Spring’s king, Angra, disappeared—thanks largely to the help of Cordell. Meira just wants her people… Read More

A Word from Richard Scarry’s son, Huck…

What I think is perhaps the most remarkable thing about his books is that they are timeless, and know no borders. His funny animal characters are equally loved by children anywhere on the planet, and the books he did some 30, 40, even 50 years ago are still… Read More

A letter to Independent Booksellers from Costa Award Winner Nathan Filer

  Dear Bookseller, I’m so happy to have this chance to write to you and to share a few thoughts about The Shock of the Fall, and its journey into your hands. I know that my novel is one of hundreds of titles that arrive with you, all boxed up… Read More

Ten Terrifying Questions – Christina Baker Kline

  The author of Bird in Hand and The Way Life Should Be delivers her most ambitious and powerful novel to date in Orphan Train. A captivating story of two very different women who build an unexpected friendship: a 91-year-old woman with a hidden past as an orphan-train rider and… Read More

Ten Questions – Claire Kendal

The Book of You is a terrifying psychological thriller about obsession and power, perfect for fans of Gone Girl and Before I Go to Sleep. We’ve put ten questions about the book to author Claire Kendal.   Tell us about The Book… Read More

Ten Questions – Christopher Moore

In The Serpent of Venice, New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in this satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, Jeff. Here we put ten… Read More

A letter from Senator Laurence Walker

Dear Bookseller, I am writing to you to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kind assistance with my No Harm Can Come To A Good Man electoral campaign; and to urge you, above all else, to stick with me. As you know,… Read More

A letter to Booksellers from James Smythe

Dear Bookseller, We – writers, readers, booksellers – are told over and over again what a strange time it is for the publishing industry. We’re told about the threat of digital, about e-readers, about market forces. We’re told how much the business has changed. What we… Read More

Nine Questions – Charles Cumming

From the winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2012 for Best Thriller of the Year comes a gripping and suspenseful new spy novel. Perfect for fans of John le Carré, Charles Cumming is ‘the master of the modern spy thriller’… Read More

The Sandman by Lars Kepler – a letter from the editor

  Dear Independent Bookseller, First and foremost, I want to thank you for your huge support of Lars Kepler to date. Selling close to five million copies of the Detective Inspector Joona Linna series around the world, you have been huge supporters since the beginning with the publication of The… Read More