The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
bookshops
Reading guides to Sydney bookshops from the 1970s and 80s, it’s striking just how many there were in the city in those decades. Across the new, remainder, secondhand and specialist bookshops, there were more than you would be able to visit in a day. The 1987 guide by Christine Flynn lists over 100. Now the […]
Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops by Isadore Brodsky was published in 1973, one of Brodsky’s many historical studies of the city. Brodsky was a doctor and a passionate historian, a prolific researcher of what was then called ‘Old Sydney’: its 19th and early 20th-century history. Sydney’s Phantom Book Shops followed the stories of the city’s bookshops […]
To celebrate publication of Days Like These, I’ll be reading some poems* in a live virtual event with @bookshop_org_uk – in support of UK independent bookshops – this evening at 7pm UK time. More info on tickets and books can be found here: https://bit.ly/brian_bilston_event *approx. 21