LIKE A CANDLE FLAME lighting up the darkness amidst recent bookshop closure announcements, good news has emerged from Winslow, Bucks, as Rickfords Hill Publishing — publishers of the much-loved and popular One Pound Classics series — have opened a new Christian bookshop in the town, Tabernacle Books. And the shop’s USP (that’s Unique Selling Point for … Continue reading
Posted in December 2013 …
Bah, humbug! New edition of A Christmas Carol from St Mark’s Press
EVERY NOW AND THEN, by dint of its cover, a book leaps out at me from that ever-growing pile known as ‘Reviews Pending’. This is one of them, a perennial Christmas classic given a new lease of life by St Mark’s Press, with artwork by Roger Langridge that would do any Discworld novel proud if Terry … Continue reading
More Bookshop Closures Announced: CLC Kingston and The Good Book Shop, Belfast
AT TIMES LIKE THIS, I hate running this blog. But these stories must, I think, be told: we do both the Christian book trade and the wider Christian church a disservice if we let these things pass unremarked. So today, with a heavy heart, I pass on the news of two more Christian bookshop closures: … Continue reading