Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
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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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