Booksellers

In 2009, two bookshops a week were closing in the UK and the days of physical books seemed numbered. Now, indie stores are booming. What explains the turnaround - and can it be sustained?

"Booksellers are constantly giving their patrons extraordinary bargains. In London recently a copy of an early edition of Keats' Poems, originally bought from a dealer for 2s was sold for £140, and a first edition of Burns' Poems bought in Edinburgh for 1s 6d brought £350."  Read more

The e-commerce giant has increased its prices, while the number of independent booksellers continues to rise.

Indie Novella, a non-profit book publishing agency, is preparing for an exciting launch in Highbury next month.

The organisation, which is based in north London, facilitates and inspires the work of local, upcoming authors.

Booksellers have kept readers around the UK going throughout a series of lockdowns. Now the reading community is coming together to back their local bookshops, with tens of thousands of pounds donated to support stores in Crickhowell, Brighton and Buckley.