Indie Bookshops

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. The perfect recipe for a roaring-success of a bookshop: one ravishing Cotswold town, lashings of famous (or beautiful) people, and at least six platters of home-made glass-domed cake. Mix carefully with stuffed-full shelves of … [Read more...] about The Novelicious Indie Book Shop Tour – Jaffe & Neale, Chipping Norton

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. ‘How did it feel,’ I ask. ‘To stand on the doorstep on Number 10, Downing Street?’ ‘Exciting,’ says Frances Smith. ‘Fantastic.’ Frances and husband Keith own ‘Warwick Books’ and ‘Kenilworth Books’, and are famous for championing … [Read more...] about The Novelicious Indie Book Shop Tour – Kenilworth Books of Kenilworth, Warwickshire

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. Mostly Books is like the very best sort of bookshop.  You duck through a bottle-green door, and make the fish-with-bells ring above your head. Then you step in, and it smells of paper and ink and something beeswaxy and … [Read more...] about The Novelicious Indie Book Shop Tour – Mostly Books, Abingdon, South Oxfordshire

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022. There are two independent bookshops in Abingdon, near Oxford, and the Novelicious Indie Bookshop Tour visits them both. There is continuous debate in the bookselling industry about the need for change and innovation for … [Read more...] about Novelicious Indie Book Shop Tour – Abingdon Books, Abingdon, Oxon

This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.By Carlie Lee I always think of bookshops as hushed, expensive places, where people peer over their glasses at me if I talk to the books. I haven’t actually been to a bookshop for a very long time – although I have a giant Amazon … [Read more...] about The Novelicious Indie Bookshop Tour – Books & Ink, Banbury