While many radical bookshops across the UK fold under the increasing costs of running a small business, Housmans in Peace House has remained a community pillar for readers and activists alike.
An Oxford bookshop reckons work against play, asserting it must have both to maintain its community.
The digital paradox of Sally Rooney
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Sally Rooney often gets labelled as the literary voice of the millennial generation. But are her soaring sales purely down to her writing alone or are there bigger cultural factors at play?
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What makes a great independent bookshop?
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How one Peckham Rye shop is making literature accessible and enjoyable for all.
A postcard from the mecca of black literature
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How has the UK’s first independent Black publishing house and bookshop been influential to the Black community?
In the heart of London since the 17th century, Cecil Court, also the temporary home of Mozart, is the West End’s most distinctive shopping street with independent booksellers.
In the early 2000s, many dystopian sagas were published, such as The Hunger Games, which was first published as a book and then translated to the big screen.
Environmentalism and independence: Ecotopia
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Is it possible for the technology and social fabric of Ernest Callenbach’s book Ecotopia to exist in reality?
Coronavirus lockdown: what we're reading
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Students from around the world discuss what they’re reading in lockdown as they cope with the effects of the coronavirus emergency.