The Bookshop Podcast

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Ross Bradshaw, Five Leaves Bookshop, Nottingham, UK Sep 20, 2021

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Hi, and welcome to episode #69!

Ross Bradshaw is the manager and owner of Five Leaves Bookshop and Five Leaves Publications in Nottingham in the UK. In this episode, Ross and I chat about the history of radical bookshops, paying your workers a living wage, where his love of books began, local authors, and of course, books!

In 2018, Five Leaves Bookshop was the first radical bookshop ever to win the UK’s Independent Bookshop of the Year Award.

Five Leaves Bookshop

Darkness Darkness: (Resnick 12), John Harvey

Even the Dogs, Jon McGregor

Island: Collected Stories, Alistair MacLeod

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Tamsin Keily, Author, Teacher Sep 15, 2021

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Hi, and welcome to episode #68!
Tamsin Keily studied Psychology before completing a post-graduate degree in primary education. She now juggles writing with her job as a primary school teacher in the UK, where she lives with her husband and her daughter. DAISY COOPER'S RULES FOR LIVING was her first novel and her second novel, THE SURPRISING DAYS OF ISLA PEMBROKE is out on September 30th, 2021!

The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke, Tamsin Keily

Daisy Cooper’s Rules for Living, Tamsin Keily

The Ten Thousand Doors of January, Alix E. Harrow

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Mr B’s Emporium

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Nic Bottomley, Mr B's Emporium Sep 13, 2021

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Welcome to episode #67!
Mr B's Emporium is a beautiful, energetic, and innovative bookshop on John Street in the heart of Bath, England. The bookshop is a bright labyrinthine space where book-related chatter and advice seem ever-present and you never know what you might encounter next, from claw-foot bath book displays to toilets illustrated by Chris Riddell.

Nic and Juliette Bottomley opened Mr Bs in 2006 and it has twice been named the UK's best independent bookshop. In 2015 the Guardian named Mr B's one of the ten best bookshops in the world.
Mr B’s Emporium

The Offing, Benjamin Myers

Mr B’s Reading Subscriptions

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Ione Butler: Actress, Entrepreneur, Founder Uplifting Content Sep 08, 2021

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Welcome to episode #66!

We all need uplifting, and today’s guest has taken the word seriously by creating Uplifting Content. Check out my interview with Ione Butler and follow her on social media for well… uplifting content!

Ione Butler is a British film, television, and voiceover actress based in LA with numerous credits including Marvel’s Black Widow, a leading role in a motion picture which premiered on the Syfy network, as well as guest-starring in hit TV shows on CBS, Spike TV, TLC, BBC, and many others.

She is an entrepreneur and the founder of Uplifting Content, a social media platform followed by over 1.4 million people, the host of the Uplifting Content Podcast, and the author of Uplifting Stories (Simon & Schuster, September 2020).

When not in lockdown, Ione can often be found traveling the world for work and fun.

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Uplifting Stories: True Tales to Inspire You To Take Action, Ione Butler

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Uplifting Content, Facebook

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Kwame Spearman, CEO Tattered Cover Book Store Sep 06, 2021

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Welcome to episode #65!
Kwame Spearman and I chat about introspection during the pandemic and immersing ourselves in what's important in our lives, how sometimes there really aren't two sides to an argument, universal truths, community, Denver, and what's new for Tattered Cover Book Store, recently bought by Bended Page LLC, with Kwame as CEO.
Tattered Cover is the largest independent bookstore in Colorado, with five locations in and around Denver and a sixth location planned for Westminster, Colorado, October 2021. They host more than 500 events each year, sell a diverse selection of new and used books, and offer a wide choice of interesting gift items. Tattered Cover is a Denver institution, a community gathering place, and an experience you can't download.

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BJ Robbins, Literary Agent Sep 01, 2021

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Welcome to episode #64!

BJ Robbins opened her Los Angeles-based agency in 1992 after a multifaceted career in book publishing in NY. She started in publicity at Simon & Schuster and was later Marketing Director and then Senior Editor at Harcourt. Her agency represents quality fiction, both literary and commercial, and general nonfiction, with a particular interest in memoir, biography, narrative history, pop culture, sports, travel/adventure, medicine and health.

A member of AAR and PEN America, Ms. Robbins has led workshops
at UCLA Extension, UC Irvine Extension, the Writer's Pad, and at the Squaw Valley
Community of Writers Fiction Workshop. On behalf of PEN, she has been guest
speaker in numerous cities in the West as part of their Writers Toolbox
program, including Seattle, Portland, Santa Fe, Dallas, Las Cruces, Flagstaff
and Oakland. She was profiled in Writer's Digest and mediabistro.com.

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The Sweetest Days, John Hough Jr.

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Don Lindgren, Rabelais Books Aug 30, 2021

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Welcome to episode #63

Rabelais Inc. in Biddeford, Maine, serves up fine books about food and drink. The store has one of the largest selections of rare and out-of-print cookbooks in the U.S., along with a significant collection of manuscripts, menus, product cookbooks, prints, photographs, and other ephemera, all expressions of the important role food holds in culture.

Rabelais Inc. opened in 2006 when Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and Don Lindgren created the original shop on Portland’s Middle Street in Maine. Encouraged by the openness and energy of the small city’s chefs and food producers and excited by their proximity to amazing ingredients from land and sea, Samantha and Don sketched a business plan on a napkin over lunch and launched Rabelais.

Rabelais Inc.

Perfection Salad, Laura Shapiro

Yotam Ottolenghi, Cook Books

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David Liss, author Aug 25, 2021

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David Liss is the author of fourteen novels and numerous novellas, short stories, and comics. His previous books include A Conspiracy of Paper, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and won the 2001 Barry, Macavity and Edgar Awards. The Coffee Trader (2003) was also named a New York Times Notable Book and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the year’s 25 Books to Remember. He is also the author of the middle-grade Randoms series.
Many of Liss's novels are currently being developed for television or film. He has worked on numerous comics projects, including Black Panther and Mystery Men for Marvel, The Spider and Green Hornet for Dynamite, and Angelica Tomorrow.

David’s new novel, The Peculiarities, is available for pre-order with a publishing date of September 7, 2021.

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Michael Faber, The Crimson Petal And The White

Halle Butler, The New Me

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Jan Weissmiller, Prairie Lights Aug 23, 2021

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Jan Weissmiller has long been on the staff of Prairie Lights Books, where she is the poetry buyer and arranges poetry readings for the “Live from Prairie Lights” series. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, teaches at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, occasionally reviews poetry for the Boston Review, and was awarded the Loess Hills Poetry Award for her collection In Divided Light.

Prairie Lights sprang to life in May 1978 as a small, intimate bookstore offering titles by the newer voices of Raymond Carver and Alice Munro and by established authors like Eudora Welty and George Orwell. As the staff and customers tended the books with care, the store grew and blossomed much like a garden. By 1982 Prairie Lights transplanted itself from South Linn St. to South Dubuque and has gradually spread to three and a half floors, the half being an 1100 square foot coffee house located in the same space that the local literary society met throughout the 1930s, hosting writers Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Sherwood Anderson, Langston Hughes, e e cummings and others. Gertrude Stein and friend Alice B. Toklas were scheduled for a reading but were sleeted in at Waukesha airport-- or so the story goes. Perhaps the strength of reputation lies in the reading series of local, national and international writers who have read their works which were broadcast live on stations WSUI and WOI and which was the only regular literary series of its kind. All of this could not have been possible without a loyal customer base and a dedicated staff.

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Brandon Taylor, author

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Elizabeth Weiss, The Sisters Sweet

Jane Hartshorn, poet, episode 21 The Bookshop Podcast

Deborah Eisenberg, Your Duck Is My Duck

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Grace Bueti Malloy, Small Farmer And Artisan Aug 18, 2021

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Welcome to episode 60 of the Bookshop Podcast!

In this episode, I'm chatting with Grace Bueti Malloy about keeping our shopping local and why it's crucial to buy from your local farmer's market!

Grace is one of the founding members of the Ojai Community Farmers' Market in Southern California, which is open every Thursday from 3-7 pm at 414 E Ojai Ave. She and her husband Dan run Poco Farm, a small educational farm in Meiners Oaks, where students of all ages learn about aspects of agriculture and food and fiber systems.

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