The popularity of Halloween has spread around the globe to places as diverse as Russia, China, and Japan, but its association with death and the supernatural and its inevitable commercialization has made it one of our most misunderstood holidays. How did it become what it is today? In Trick or Treat, Halloween aficionado Lisa Morton …
Characterised by Shaun Bythell’s signature wit and humour, Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops is an insightful exploration of humans as they indulge in browsing the shelves for their next read. As a bookseller, Bythell finds himself in the unique position to keenly observe fellow lovers of books which has resulted in a …
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara, …
