Yesterday was the last day of Independent Bookshop Week! Been ordering (and pre-ordering!) from a few indie outlets but there’s nothing like stepping into an actual bookshop. I started profiling a few bookshops local to my home and office a…
125 Rye Ln, Peckham, London SE15 4S Turns out I have been unknowingly passing this gem by whenever I walk through Peckham to buy plantains….Why are they so expensive now? Is it Brexit? Can we blame gentrification? Anyway! Was excited…
Any excuse at all to go to Libreria, one of my favourite places in London (I profiled it here) so it was great spending Thursday evening there for an event – Black Literary History: An African Perspective with Inua Ellams, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Sylvia Arthur …
Chener Books: 14 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London SE22 8HN. This is actually the first bookshop I profiled for the blog’s independent bookshops series, just hadn’t gotten round to posting! In celebration of Bookshop Day, here it is…… Chener Books…
Talking shop with the staff at Libreria…… Picking up where we left off on the previous post, here’s a convo I had with the lovely book seller…. What made you open a place like this? How are people responding to…
Thematic shelving, an amazingly curated selection and a lot of yellow- New favourite bookshop…. Full disclosure: This profile might be a little bit biased because I fell in love with the place. Also, the book seller (Lloyd) enthusiastically entertained my…
It was a good evening for this. One of those hot London days when Summer is happening properly and there’s actual cause for shorts. After walking up and down Bellendon Road and noting some shops I’d never seen before, I…