Essays from behind the counter, mostly about reading, occasionally about the trade.
These are the pieces that did not fit into a shelf card. They run to two or three thousand words and appear when they are finished rather than on a schedule, which is roughly every six weeks.
Recent subjects: what happens to a bookshop when a prize longlist is announced, why we stopped stocking one very famous imprint, and an honest account of the year we tried to sell books by algorithm and stopped.
Back to the JournalMargins, sale-or-return, and why the paperback you want is not out yet.
Rereading, abandoning, and the books that only work at a particular age.
Ten years of decisions, including the ones we would not make again.