The Readership Journal
The Journal
Interviews, reading lists and a peek behind the shelves.
Featured · Bookshop News
How we choose a staff pick
There is a rule, and the rule is deliberately hard to satisfy.
Interviews Meet the buyers: autumn picks
Three of our buyers on the books they fought for this season.
Essays A short history of the paperback
How a format designed to be disposable ended up preserving more literature than any library.
Essays What booksellers actually read on holiday
Spoiler: almost none of it is the thing they have been hand-selling all year.
Bookshop News The shelf that sold out in a weekend
What happened when one creator’s eight-book shelf went past four million views.
Reading Lists Ten books for a long winter
Our booksellers pick the titles worth committing to when the evenings are long.
Interviews Celia Silvani on the year she spent inside a Facebook group
The author of Baby Teeth on research, online motherhood, and why the scariest thing in the book is a comment thread.
Essays Why we still need bookshops
Algorithms are very good at telling you what you already like. A bookseller is good at telling you what you don’t yet know you like.