Rabbie Burns, Bobby Stevenson, and Walt Scott are so 19th century! Ahead of the Edinburgh Festival next month we thought we’d bring you up-to-date with the current literary scene in …
An archive can vary in substance and appearance from a beautifully bound set of books and documents to a few boxes of papers and hand-written notes. Some are digital, date-sorted …
‘Whenever people ask me that inevitable question, “Who’s your favourite author?” I always say “Shakespeare”.’ Margaret Atwood The fourth novel to be released in Vintage’s Hogarth Shakespeare enterprise, Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed is a …
Easyjet Launches ‘Flybraries’ Children’s Book Club The perfect solution to keeping kids entertained on flights, without fellow passengers having to listen to sociopathic birds killing pigs on ipads—headphones anyone? On …
It’s hard to believe it’s been 13 years since the last episode aired. The Friends were all avid readers—after all, the first piece of furniture Chandler and Joey put together …
Writing a Marketing Plan Here at the SYP, we’re always looking for new and exciting ways to help our members connect and progress. Earlier this year, the London Committee launched …
‘Some books haunt the reader. Others haunt the writer. The Handmaid’s Tale has done both.’ Margaret Atwood Great dystopian literature will never cease to give us goose bumps from Orwell’s Nineteen …
We can’t believe June’s over already? If you feel like it was lost in a haze of equal measures of hot and dreich weather, here’s the run down of what …
‘You are a pastel-coloured Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bourdeaux wine stain that won’t come out.’ I was in a bookstore a couple of days ago and a woman bogarting …
Can you tell these literary aficionados from their childhood pics? Let us know if you think fame has made them even more quaffed, or if they’re a shadow of their …
Book Aid International has announced that it is expanding its work to provide brand new books to communities in Rwanda. Yesterday, 19th June, the charity sent 31,801 books to support …
On Monday 12th June, a small crowd of members and non-members alike gathered in Bristol’s Tobacco Factory for our inaugual SYP and the Bookseller on the Road event. This is …