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#StayAtHomeStoryTime with Oliver Jeffers

“For all you folks stuck at home in the coming weeks. from Monday, at 6pm GMT / 2pm EST / 11am PST I will be reading one of my books every weekday, and talking about some of the things that went into making it. We are… Read More

NEWS – Winners of the HarperCollins Literacy Project Grants for Independent Booksellers 2019

In association with the National Literacy Trust, we are so excited to announce the recipients of the HarperCollins Literacy Project Grants for Independent Booksellers. The grants were launched at our HarperCollins Indie Thinking evening in January 2019. They were set up with the National Literacy Trust as… Read More

Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel

From the twice Booker Prize winner and internationally bestselling Hilary Mantel, a collection of writing – essays, book reviews, memoir – from over thirty years contributing to the London Review of Books In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she… Read More

On Railways – A letter from Julian Holland

The Times Golden Years of Rail Travel 3rd October 2019 Hardback Collins 9780008323752 RRP £30 Celebrate the heyday of passenger rail travel around Britain with this beautiful Times railway book. The perfect gift for any railway enthusiasts this Christmas. Take a journey back to the boom time for Britain’s… Read More

On bookshops – Louise Hare introduces her debut novel This Lovely City

For me, bookshops have always been a big part of my life.  Dear Bookseller, Thank you for taking the time to read This Lovely City. I hope you enjoy reading Lawrie and Evie’s story as much as I enjoyed writing it. For me, bookshops have… Read More

Children’s Activity Sheets

Perfect for fun indoors, below are activities sheets to offer your customers. We’ve got a dazzling new collection of children’s activity sheets from HarperCollins Children’s Books containing a range of puzzles and games inspired by their list of brilliant books, including Oliver Jeffers, Bad Nana and Paddington. Read More

Social Media Graphics

Need something for your social media channels? We’ve got you covered. Independent Bookshops are invited to use any social media graphics in newsletters, social media, online and in-store promotions. Please let us know if you use them as we’d love to support! Feel free to tag us in… Read More

Bookclub Resources

For your book-clubs (virtual or otherwise!), below are a list of bookclub questions and resources to help Download any of the files and offer to your customers by clicking the book jackets below. Fiction A reading guide to Hilary Mantel’s epic The Mirror… Read More

On Murder Mysteries – Lucy Foley on writing The Guest List

“I also love writing about pressure cooker situations. The Hunting Party was certainly one – New Year’s Eve and old friends equals a whole lot of expectation and pressure to have a good time and get along. A wedding, I felt, was another such situation.” I’m… Read More

On Batch-Cooking, Suzanne Mulholland on creating The Batch Lady

“Most of all its about gaining back time and headspace” The Batch Lady is based around the concept of batch cooking but in a whole new, modern way. It’s about time saving, creating fast simple homemade meals that can be made in advance and frozen for… Read More

On Victimhood – Kate Elizabeth Russell discusses My Dark Vanessa

“In short, I wanted to challenge the idea that any of this is easy to understand.” “We like to believe that victims and abusers can be boiled down to archetypes who behave in predetermined ways, but in My Dark Vanessa I wanted to challenge that by creating in… Read More

On Changeling Tales – Melanie Golding on writing Little Darlings

‘There are those who would tell you that you must keep one eye on your children, and one eye out for the gentle-folk.’ It thrills me to imagine you, seated by a window, or at a desk, holding Little Darlings in your hands: turning it over,… Read More

On Adventure – John Bond on writing Mini Rabbit Not Lost

‘Mini Rabbit is a bit like an animal representation of myself when I was a child’ Mini Rabbit was created during a series of self-initiated illustrations, back in 2015. I was having fun experimenting in Photoshop, merging photographic textures with digital painting techniques and started to develop these atmospheric,… Read More

On writing someone else’s book – Michael Davies on finishing a ‘lost’ Desmond Bagley novel

Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure novel by one of the world’s most successful thriller writers, involving murder, corruption and a daring hijack in the Caribbean. How I got to ‘write’ someone else’s book There’s a definition of the word curator on Wikipedia: “a content… Read More

On the hidden love story of C.S. Lewis – Patti Callahan on writing Becoming Mrs Lewis

I discovered as you and your readers also will, that Joy isn’t interesting merely because C. S. Lewis fell in love with her. Not even close. What a privilege and an honour to talk to you about writing Becoming Mrs Lewis – The Improbable Love Story of Joy… Read More