The Perks of Being A Bookseller.

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WCBP 2014 - Longlist Panelist.
WCBP 2016 - Longlist Panelist.
WCBP 2017 - Longlist Panelist.
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A Tale Of Two Booksellers

As I have mentioned, a few months ago myself and my colleague (and friend) Fiona started a bookish podcast - A Tale of Two Booksellers.

The idea first sprung from Fi, who despaired at the lack of podcasts about books, especially YA books. As Fi and I both work together running the rather massive ‘Kid’s Room’ at our store (which includes a lovingly curated, rather huge, YA section), whilst we work we often spend many hours just chatting away about all of the books we loved, hated, had read recently, were looking forward to… and unbeknownst to us, several of our colleagues had been ‘listening in’. 

One day, our manager commented that she could listen to us chat about books for hours, and that she often took accidental book recommendations from us… thus, the idea for A Tale of Two Booksellers was born!

We have currently recorded four episodes, three of which are currently available to listen to. We upload roughly every four weeks, time dependent (we do both work full-time!) and - of course - it is free to listen. We upload to SoundCloud and iTunes.

One of our highlights so far has to be getting to record Episode 3: The Cringefest Special with three amazing YA authors from Scholastic when they came to our store as part of the Cringefest book tour. We sat down with Beth Garrod, Simon James Green, and Stephanie Kate Strohm to chat about all things cringey and bookish, and even though Fi and I were both really nervous, we had so much fun!

We would both absolutely love it if you would check it out.

You can listen on SoundCloud here.

or on iTunes here.

And if you enjoy it, it would make our day if you subscribe or share!

We’re also on Twitter @TwoBooksellers if you want to keep up to date with when we’re recording and uploading, and on Instagram @ataleoftwobooksellers.

Wonder Woman: Warbringer // Leigh Bardugo.Wonder Woman: Warbringer is the first book in Penguin’s new DC Icons series - four books by four different YA authors, telling the origin stories of four of DC’s most iconic characters. A recent convert to...

Wonder Woman: Warbringer // Leigh Bardugo.

Wonder Woman: Warbringer is the first book in Penguin’s new DC Icons series - four books by four different YA authors, telling the origin stories of four of DC’s most iconic characters. A recent convert to Leigh Bardugo’s writing (and now utterly addicted), I was incredibly excited to read her take on Diana.

In Warbringer, we meet 17-year-old Diana, daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Frustrated by her lack of strength compared to her sisters, and bored of the day-to-day life of being Hippolyta’s daughter, Diana finds herself abandoning a race in order to save a human - Alia. But Alia is no ordinary human. She is the Warbringer, a descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy.

This book as absolutely everything that I wanted and so, so much more. Bardugo, it seems, was the perfect author to pen Diana’s story, managing to blend mythology and the modern-day together masterfully, spinning a tale so engrossing that I could barely put this book down.

True to form, Bardugo has written a set of brilliantly diverse and complex characters that feel like they could just jump off the page. This, mixed with an unputdownable story, made Warbringer an absolute delight to read. I cannot wait for the rest of the books in this series.

Get Warbringer from the Book Depository.

Anonymous asked: Awesome! ^^ I recommend "Passenger" and "Wayfarer" by Alexandra Bracken, "Three Sisters Three Queens" by Philippa Gregory! I finished them recently and really enjoyed them. I hope you do too, if you haven't already!

Oooo - I keep eyeing up the Passenger books at work, I may have to take the plunge and invest. And I have read a couple of Philippa Gregory’s books and really enjoyed them - keep meaning to get around to more! Thanks ^.^

Anonymous asked: Do you like getting book recs?

I do indeed! I can never promise to get around to all of them, but everytime someone recommends me a book, I make sure to add it to my goodreads to-read shelf, so I remember the recc :)

crowmaidenwitch asked: Have you ever read "The Paris Wife" by Paula McLain? Love your blog by the way!

I haven’t - but I have read Circling the Sun by her and I absolutely loved it. And thank you so much ^.^

My Sherlock Holmes shelf.

My Sherlock Holmes shelf.