BLOG POST: April 2022, We’ve got it covered
It's the end of April. I'm writing that opener almost like it's a slightly bewildered revelation rather than a statement of fact. A third of the way through my bookshop year and it hardly feels like a week has passed,
BLOG POST: Keir Starmer visit
I Photo credit: Colchester Gazette Blog post by Louise Prior (newest and youngest Red Lion Books Team member). He arrived around fifteen minutes past eleven. I wasn't on the top floor when Keir Starmer, Leader of the Labour Party, came into Red Lion
BLOG POST: Essex Year of Reading & Toto the Cat
Essex County Council launched their Year of Reading and asked Red Lion Books to supply books to St Thomas More's Primary School, ahead of Dermot O'Leary (former X Factor host) visiting the school. "Yes", we said. Set up by the Essex Education
BLOG POST: The Insatiable Queen B
Red Lion Books met Daisy Buchanan at the EA Festival last year https://www.eafestival.com/ and instantly hit it off - finding a mutual love of bookshops, Margate and Jilly Cooper. Let me clarify, this wasn't F.Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy incarnate. No, this was the
BLOG POST: First Impressions
It's cold. I mean really cold. Three, sometimes, four layers cold. It was one of the things that was brought to my attention when I had my interview for the post of bookseller way back in June last year. "It gets
BLOG POST: Completing the jigsaw puzzle
Somebody today, asked what a typical day at the book shop looked like and we realised there is no typical day. We start off with grand plans to 'tidy up', which generally means, 'make more mess'. We always hoover and water the
BLOG POST: What is this ‘Under Wraps’?!
It all started with 'Jolaokaflod'! This is an Icelandic term, translating to 'Christmas book flood' and is used to describe books that are gifted on Christmas Eve. At Red Lion Books we gift-wrapped a book we hoped our customers would love