October 2021
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Robin Ince at Red Lion Books
Is he a stand-up comic, actor or radio presenter; a writer, or explorer of the human condition, is he a science communicator or a poet? Well, this is Robin Ince and he is all of these things and more. This afternoon he arrived at Red Lion Books to talk to our customers about his new […]
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An Event to celebrate ‘The Testaments’ launch
This was a truly memorable event for us and also for those who attended. Two indie bookshops were chosen by her publishers, Vintage (with input from Margaret Atwood herself) to launch The Testaments in the UK. We were chosen on the strength of our idea for customers to have their anonymous testaments read by an […]
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What is this ‘Under Wraps’?!
It all started with ‘Jolaokaflod’! This is an Icelandic term, translating to ‘Christmas book flood’ and is used to describe books that are gifted on Christmas Eve. At Red Lion Books we gift-wrapped a book we hoped our customers would love and sold it in the run-up to Christmas. Its purchase came with rules: It […]
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Limericks
As booksellers who love real books printed on paper the advent of e-books has not been a welcome development. And the Kindle in particular as it binds users into a certain dominant online retailer. Here’s a couple of anti-Kindle limericks which I hope may cause a smile. A spy novel lover called Jane Found […]
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Books Made Of Paper
A paper book is a wondrous thing No batteries are needed You can shelve it for a hundred years Then take it down and read it. You can read it in the bath tub You can read it on the train You can read it when the sun is bright You can read it […]
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Out of This World
Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, George Orwell, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Swift. What have these writers got in common? One answer is that they are all writers of science fiction…..yet none would feature in most lists of science fiction writers and in bookshops and libraries you are unlikely to find them in the science fiction section. In […]