BLOG POST: Silent Spring: a book that made a big noise.
Books are important in so many ways. They can move us, thrill us and entertain us. They can also inform and educate us.'Silent Spring' is one of the most influential books ever to have been published. It kick-started the environmental movement worldwide and established a publishing genre of science writing
BLOG POST: 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
BLOG POST: 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
BLOG POST: 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 wehoped our customers would love and sold it in the run-up to Christmas. Its purchase
BLOG POST: 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
BLOG POST: Books Made Of Paper
A paper book is a wondrous thingNo batteries are neededYou can shelve it for a hundred yearsThen take it down and read it. You can read it in the bath tubYou can read it on the trainYou can read it when the sun is brightYou can read it in the rain. It
BLOG POST: 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
BLOG POST: World Book Day Books and children of fathers in prison
As enthusiastic supporters of World Book Day we are involved with several local schools and always tend to order too many copies of each yearly crop of fantastic WBD titles. After all, the last thing we ever want to do is to run out! It does mean that after the