At The City Lovers’ Bookshop

Julia Harrison of the Silver Locket visited Mireille Galinou at the new City Lovers’ Bookshop which has just opened in Baker St Station. Julia and Mireille will be in conversation discussing The Creative Future for Independent Bookselling at the Bloomsbury Jamboree this Sunday 15th November at 12:15pm at the Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Sq, WC1N 3AT. Julia Harrison (formerly of Waterstone’s and Daunt Books) and Mireille Galinou (of the City Lovers’ Bookshop) celebrate the creative new possibilities for independent bookselling, adapting and innovating to challenge the online marketplace by offering a radically different and more personal experience. At this watershed moment for bookselling, they ask what it can provide and why it matters. Resisting the dominance of online retailing empowered by AI, Julia and Mireille explore the potential for building communities around the experience of reading and viable new kinds of bookshops, encouraging spaces for the exchange of ideas and…

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