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: 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
BLOG POST: Essex Year of Reading & Toto the Cat
Essex County Council launched their Year of Reading and asked Red Lion Books to supply books to St Thomas More's Primary School, ahead of Dermot O'Leary (former X Factor host) visiting the school. "Yes", we said. Set up by the Essex Education
BLOG POST: What brings you here?
Is it Lemn Sissay saying 'Hourglass will stay with me for a long time?' Did he tempt you? Or perhaps it's Hollie McNish? 'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone'.Maybe it is Max
BLOG POST: Say it with books
There's something rather lovely leaving the shop when it's still light. I'll probably say the same thing when it starts to get dark, come November, when there's the first signs of the orange street-light glow. But for now, Spring is on
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
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
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