An innovative library scheme has been launched in Indonesia to provide books for youngsters in the remote island of Eastern Indonesia, contributed by Ruth O’Driscoll.
The cancellation of the Leipzig Book Fair for the second year running has implications for the literary world. Read this blog contribution from Ruth O'Driscoll.
“As long as you're alive, you have to hunt for happiness....We are all going through very difficult times that seem insurmountable to us."Blog on the thoughts of Yasmina Khadra, contributed by Ruth O’Driscoll.
It may seem madness to open a business during a pandemic. While many lower the shutters and reckon with a future that is becoming increasingly uncertain, there are those who take courage in the hands and dive into the storm: Antonella Giustizieri (47 years) has opened a bookshop in Aradeo Italy, just over a month. It is called My Bookshop, located in via Salvo D'Acquisto 29 and is the crowning of a dream. Almost 15 years ago, while working in a call centre in Padua, she decided to open a website: "It was a blog, but not a personal diary. In the evening I wrote book reviews". When social media arrived, My Bookshop became a Facebook page that now counts almost 120 thousand...
