Manuel Rivas: O último día de Terranova (The Last Days of Terranova)
The latest addition to my website is Manuel Rivas'O último día de Terranova (The Last Days of Terranova). In 2014 Vicenzo Fontana is having to close his beloved bookshop in…
The Independent Publisher Crisis
I have pointed out several times that the most interesting books being published in translation into English are being published by small, independent publishers. While all parts of the book…
Livraria Lello, Porto
A long weekend in Porto revealed a few things, one of which is that it is wetter and colder in Porto than in (the South of) England. We visited the…
Ateneo bookshop
I have just returned from the one continent that has no native born writers (though it does have a few native born people). It also has one bookshop, as the…