Got Books? Conversations with Booksellers
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On our 10th episode of Got Books?, we sit down with Martin Latham, bookseller extraordinaire and author of The Bookseller's Tale. Martin has been the longest standing manager for British book retailer Waterstones, having been at the Canterbury bookshop since 1990. He even ordered the excavation of the Roman Bath-House floor at his bookshop, paying for it with the biggest petty cash slip in Waterstones history.
Martin knows books like no other and this transpires abundantly in The Bookseller's Tale, which was named the 2020 Book of the Year by British newspapers the Spectator and the Evening Standard. The book lays out the history of storytelling and of publishing, full of anecdotes and witticisms, and is a must-read for those who wonder lovingly about the history of books and bookselling. We chat with Martin today to get an insight into his encyclopaedic knowledge and passion for storytelling.
Books recommended by Martin (or written by him):
The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Figuring by Maria Popova
First Love by Ivan Turgenev
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gotbooks/messageS3 Ep10 Alex Holder, Salted Books (Lisbon, Portugal)
S3 Mini Episode: Opening a Bookshop!
S3 Ep9 Edgars Lielausis, Robert's Books (Riga, Latvia)
S3 Mini Episode: Future Booksellers Club and Fun Christmas Gifts
S3 Ep8 Danny Caine, The Raven Book Store (Lawrence, Kansas, United States)
S3 Ep7 Hailey Brock, The Nature of Reading (Madison, New Jersey, United States)
S3 Mini Episode: All About Bookshops - Niche Bookshops Everywhere
S3 Ep6 Neil Paul & Brid Conroy, Tertulia (Westport, Ireland)
S3 Ep5 Federico Lang, Libreria Luces (Malaga, Spain)
S3 Ep4 Clayton Comber, Bouquiniste (Kiama, Australia)
S3 Ep3 Rakesh Singh, Harmony (Varanasi, India)
S3 Ep2 Gesine Tosin, About (Berlin, Germany)
S3 Ep1: Jorge F. Hernandez & Pablo Cerezo, Pergamo (Madrid, Spain)
S2 Ep 9: Christmas Special w. Pil Cappelen Smith, Cappelens Forslag (Oslo, Norway)
S2 Ep 8: Christmas Special w. Julia König & David Bloomfield, Golden Hare (Edinburgh, Scotland)
S2 Ep 7: Christmas Special w. Shaun Bythell, The Bookshop (Wigtown, Scotland)
S2 Ep 6: Christmas Special w. Stephen Fowler, Monkey's Paw (Toronto, Canada)
S2 Ep 5: Christmas Special w. Charlotte Delattre, Desperate Literature (Madrid, Spain)
Mini-Episode 5: News in Books & Book Review w. Emily Feetham (Girl in the Walls by A. J. Gnuse)
S2 Ep 4: Carmen Oliart, Sabina Editorial (Madrid, Spain)
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