Sep 5, 2022
John Owen is a
bookseller who runs the events program at the English Bookshop at
Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus in Berlin. That English Bookshop?
Probably the best I've ever been in, in my life.
We talk about, among other things:
being blown away; bookshop lighting; window seating; how to display
books; mixing things up...
Jul 4, 2022
What's not to like here? Marius
Kociejowski is charming, erudite and funny. Why
should you listen to him? He's just written a memoir about the soul
of the book trade. What happens in bookstores doesn't happen
elsewhere he says. The multifariousness of human nature is more
on show here than
anywhere else,...
Apr 6, 2020
Simon Beattie is a
British antiquarian bookseller, literary translator and composer.
He was the first British bookseller to be featured in
Fine Books & Collections Magazine's series Bright Young
Things.
Beattie was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and the University of Exeter, where he took a double first in...
Feb 1, 2011
Adrian Harrington is a noted antiquarian bookseller who specializes in first editions by Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Graham Greene, J.K.Rowling and, particularly, Ian Fleming. He is a Past President of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA), 2001–2003, and the immediate past President of the
May 10, 2006
Interview with used antiquarian book dealer Peter Ellis at his shop on Cecil Court Road in London, England.