BLOG POST: April 2022, We’ve got it covered
It's the end of April. I'm writing that opener almost like it's a slightly bewildered revelation rather than a statement of fact. A third of the way through my bookshop year and it hardly feels like a week has passed,
BLOG POST: Meeting Ben Aaronovitch
A blog post from Louise, our 'newest and youngest' member of staff'. Friday the 8th of April, 2022, was my first time working an event for Red Lion Books, and it was a biggie. The first book in the Rivers of London
BLOG POST: The Marmalade Diaries author event
I'm writing this post with a bit of a fuzzy head - although the marmalade is helping. There were a lot of inspiring things that came out of Ben Aitken's talk last night, one of which was reminding me of the
BLOG POST: March ramblings
And so, March leaves us like a lamb, or so the phrase goes.Although in Indie bookshop-land, it's been a little the other way around with a quiet, genteel period of activity at the start of the month and then a flurry
BLOG POST: Keir Starmer visit
I Photo credit: Colchester Gazette Blog post by Louise Prior (newest and youngest Red Lion Books Team member). He arrived around fifteen minutes past eleven. I wasn't on the top floor when Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, came into Red Lion
BLOG POST: Francis Spufford and his Light Perpetual
Daytime book club is back and we were thrilled to have Francis Spufford as our guest, discussing Light Perpetual. Book club member, Paul Burns, shares his thoughts.We were gathered in the bar area of the