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Reasons Revisited

Reading Revival: why the bookshop is back

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hello! Have you ever dreamed of running your own bookshop? We are cheerful to report that the book industry is smashing it at the moment, with the number of indie bookshops at their highest level in six years, and book sales above pre-pandemic levels. Ed and Geoff speak to Sian Bayley, news editor at The Bookseller, who tells us about what’s driving this upward trend. We hear from co-founders Rosie May and Sarah Scales of Juno Books in Sheffield about how they made their lockdown dreams a reality. Finally, Aimée Felone, children’s publisher and co-director of Round Table Books in Brixton, tells us about her journey into publishing and what it means to run an inclusive bookshop.


Plus: Buoyed up by his viral musical success, Ed's started learning an instrument...


Guests

Sian Bayley, News Editor, The Bookseller (@sleighbayley / @thebookseller)


Rosie May and Sarah Scales, Co-Founders of Juno Books (@junobookssheff)


Aimée Felone, Managing Director of children’s publisher Knights Of and Co-Director of Round Table Books (@aimeefelone / @roundtablebooks)


More information

BookBar in Finsbury Park, London


Learn more about the work of BookTrust and Lit in Colour


Visit the Bookseller's website - the trade magazine for the publishing industry


Visit Juno Books in Sheffield 


Visit Round Table Books in Brixton, London


Find out about Knights Of, Aimée’s publishing company


CLPE Survey of Ethnic Representation in Children's Literature. Read the most recent report here


Books Aimée recommends in the episode

Knights and Bikes by Gabrielle Kent

For Every One by Jason Reynolds

Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson 

Windward Family by Alexis Keir

Mind and Me by Sunita Chawdhary



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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by the Financial Fairness Podcast, which I've recently become a

0:05.1

subscriber to. If you like this, I'm sure you're going to enjoy it. It is excellent conversations

0:11.6

about the issues that affect living standards. I listened to a great one yesterday,

0:16.3

with Chief Executive of the Trustle Trust, Emma Revy, who's working to stop UK hunger and poverty.

0:21.9

And she's incredible obviously. Now of course, people needing to turn to food banks because

0:26.6

of financial hardship is deeply troubling. But it was also really inspiring to hear about how

0:32.8

they meet that need with compassion and also Emma's thoughts on what needs to change. And that

0:38.8

is what is at the heart of every episode and of the Financial Fairness Trust itself, improving

0:45.6

living standards for people on low to middle incomes in the UK. Now like I said, I'm certain that

0:50.8

if you enjoy our podcast, you'll really love it. And I'm just looking down the feed. And they have

0:56.0

excellent guests to real heavyweights like economists, meata fanbola, former chancellor,

1:02.3

Alistair Darling, award-winning money journalist Paul Lewis. Basically, you get to hear some

1:07.2

serious brains on why our economy works the way it does and how we can create a fairer society.

1:13.3

Listen and subscribe to Financial Fairness Podcast.

1:25.1

This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Edmila Vand and Jeff Lloyd.

1:29.6

Hello. Well, hello. Did you see that there was something exciting in the inbox?

1:33.7

No. So, Trevor, last week we took about your blowing in the wind vinyl video.

1:39.0

Yeah. And I was saying what would be great is if somebody could remix this.

1:42.1

Yeah. Well, we received an email from John Walton, whose name may ring a bell because he was one

1:49.7

of the entrants in the ill-fated Reasons to Be cheerful song contest. But he's still with us and

1:56.2

he says, hi, Ed and Jeff, please find attached a little video mix of Ed's blowing in the wind cover.

2:02.5

Also, no hard feelings over the theme tune Fiasco. Well, it does lucky.

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