April 2022

  • 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, let alone all the seconds and minutes I’ve spent at the coalface of indie bookselling. […]

  • 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 series, aptly titled Rivers of London, came out when I was 11, […]

  • 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 restorative effects of a good old-fashioned piece of toast with marmalade on it.  The […]

  • 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 towards the end. Some of that was down to Mothers’ Day, a difficult time […]

  • 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 Books but downstairs organising the TikTok Book Recommendation display. Since our […]

  • 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 Three Wise Monkeys, looking at each other and chatting and wondering what he’d look like! And then there he […]