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'Small is beautiful': How independent bookshops plan to survive – and thrive – in 'volatile' times
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'Small is beautiful': How independent bookshops plan to survive – and thrive – in 'volatile' times

The number of independent bookshops dropped last year – but booksellers are fighting on. Here, two tell us what bookselling is like in 2024
'Libraries are at the forefront of combatting loneliness and inequality'
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Pamela Tulloch

'Libraries are at the forefront of combatting loneliness and inequality'

Check out these literary themed t-shirts to support ailing libraries
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Check out these literary themed t-shirts to support ailing libraries

Meet the librarians going above and beyond to get books to kids in lockdown
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Meet the librarians going above and beyond to get books to kids in lockdown

Collins gives homeschooling parents free access to books
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Collins gives homeschooling parents free access to books

Indy bookshop takes orders over Twitter to overcome flooding and coronavirus
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Indy bookshop takes orders over Twitter to overcome flooding and coronavirus

Edmund de Waal takes aim at library closures in British Museum installation
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Edmund de Waal takes aim at library closures in British Museum installation

Library crusader Bobby Seagull deliver funding demands to Downing Street
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Library crusader Bobby Seagull deliver funding demands to Downing Street

How the Breakfast Book Club is helping disadvantaged kids get into reading
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How the Breakfast Book Club is helping disadvantaged kids get into reading

How ebooks and libraries help bring people together
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How ebooks and libraries help bring people together

Bobby Seagull is taking a petition fighting for library funding to Number 10
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Bobby Seagull is taking a petition fighting for library funding to Number 10

Saturdays in the library prepared me for Paxman
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Bobby Seagull

Saturdays in the library prepared me for Paxman

"I’ve seen firsthand what we lose if we don’t invest in libraries"
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Dr Emma Davidson

"I’ve seen firsthand what we lose if we don’t invest in libraries"

Need books? The Big Issue can help
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Need books? The Big Issue can help

Strangers rally round to gift boy his lost Pratchett books collection
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Strangers rally round to gift boy his lost Pratchett books collection

Why books matter: More than 380,000 UK kids don’t own a book
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Why books matter: More than 380,000 UK kids don’t own a book

Campaigners want you to vote for libraries in this general election
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Campaigners want you to vote for libraries in this general election

Book Refuge is bringing mini-libraries to London homeless shelters
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Book Refuge is bringing mini-libraries to London homeless shelters

Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day
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Here are the top 10 events worth checking out this Bookshop Day

Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity
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Tom Mole: Bookshops are here to stay, they're machines for serendipity

Essex libraries saved from the axe – but battle to keep them staffed goes on
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Essex libraries saved from the axe – but battle to keep them staffed goes on

John Bird launches new magazine to get the nation 'reading deeper'
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John Bird launches new magazine to get the nation 'reading deeper'

Take a ride on this staggering literary tube map of London
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Take a ride on this staggering literary tube map of London

John Bird: A new chapter, and a bit of a revolution
John Bird

John Bird: A new chapter, and a bit of a revolution

Peter Capaldi presents writing awards to creative young people in care
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Peter Capaldi presents writing awards to creative young people in care