BLOG POST: This is your shop
We received the following message from a young customer who was recently won the 'Top Young Reporter of the Year' award. Congratulations RosieIt’s Rosie, I’m not sure if you remember me but wrote an article about the shop last Autumn.
BLOG POST: Rivers, Bodies, Stars with award winning poets
We are thrilled to have an event scheduled with award winning poets,Rebecca Goss, Emily Hasler and Joanna Ingham Amongst other accolades, Rebecca is the winner of the Sylvia Plath award 2022, Joanna won second place in the BBC Wildlife Poet Competition
BLOG POST: Hunger Games comeback – is this the Dystopian Renaissance?
By Regina Lopez Puerta When I opened my phone yesterday, I felt I was transported all the way back to 2013. Suddenly, I was back in my childhood bedroom, a mockingjay pin on my jacket, Katniss posters all over my wall, scrolling through
BLOG POST: Anna reviews This Family by Kate Sawyer
This Family by Kate SawyerIt’s a new beginning. She should be happy. And she is. She is. But where there are beginnings, there are always endings too.’I enjoyed Kate Sawyer’s first novel The Stranding, a powerful reimagining of the end
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: A Terrible Kindness
FACT: Warm, generous, wise authors can take you to terrible places; talented authors ensure you return home. A TERRIBLE KINDNESS proves it.Pre-publication, our wonderful Indie Alliance rep, Rosy, brought a proof copy to Red Lion Books saying, "This. You need
BLOG POST: The Insatiable Queen B
Red Lion Books met Daisy Buchanan at the EA Festival last year https://www.eafestival.com/ and instantly hit it off - finding a mutual love of bookshops, Margate and Jilly Cooper.Let me clarify, this wasn't F.Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy incarnate. No, this was the
BLOG POST: Nicholas Jubber returns to Red Lion Books
Never underestimate the gratitude that an author has for their readership (and the booksellers) who champion their work.On a cold January evening, Nicholas (Nick) Jubber travelled all the way from Dorset to speak with Red Lion Books - here in
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