BLOG POST: Back to School
I've just had a conversation with Jo, the manager here at Red Lion, where the C word was mentioned. How is it not even the end of Summer and we're talking about Christmas? But that's how the pages turn in a bookshop,
BLOG POST: Eyes on the Prize
At this time of year, we have a gaggle of students popping into the shop, each clutching one of our tokens, which they've been awarded as a school prize. We like to play a little game here at Red Lion Books
BLOG POST: Eye of Boudica Event at Red Lion Books
The Eye is all-seeing, all-consuming, always being watched and judged for good or bad actions. Big Brother is Watching you, as Orwell said. People correct themselves when they're aware an eye is on them. Crime decreases, and people clean up
BLOG POST: What brings you here?
Is it Lemn Sissay saying 'Hourglass will stay with me for a long time?' Did he tempt you? Or perhaps it's Hollie McNish? 'A book for anyone who ever has been or ever will be heartbroken. So that's everyone'. Maybe it is Max
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