This year’s London Book Fair took place between 18th and 20th April at Olympia (still my favourite venue of the four I have experienced). Annika and I attended on the first and second days. We agreed it was one of the most enjoyable and productive LBFs we have been to for several years. It hadContinueContinue reading “London Book Fair 2023”
Category Archives: Conferences
Belated New Year’s Greetings!
Happy 2022 from Gold Leaf! We apologise for not having sent our new year’s greetings sooner. We are not offering excuses for being so tardy, but if we were, we could claim that we have been waiting to get more of a grip on the lie of the land as the new year swings intoContinueContinue reading “Belated New Year’s Greetings!”
Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021
After more than eighteen months of a face-to-face industry events famine, Back Together Again, the 2021 BA Conference which started with the Gardners Trade Show on Sunday 12th September and continued with the conference itself the following day, was an absolute triumph. It demonstrated that independent booksellers are not only alive and well, but despiteContinueContinue reading “Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021”
The ABT Conference 2019 – Student Workshop
(Picture of the ABT Conference Student Panel, (c) Alan Staton, Booksellers Association) Six international students took part in the student workshops at the ABT Conference 2019. They were respectively from Mexico, The Netherlands, Italy, Iran, South Korea and Indonesia. The workshop was run twice, so that all delegates could attend once (it ran back-to-back withContinueContinue reading “The ABT Conference 2019 – Student Workshop”
Highlights from the ABT Conference 2019
The ABT Conference 2019 was held in Kenilworth on 9th and 10th May. It was chaired by Louis Coiffait, the newly-appointed Head of Policy at London Metropolitan University. Louis Coiffait Louis also gave the opening keynote talk, which, like his address at the 2018 conference, was entitled The Shipping News (capturing many changes that haveContinueContinue reading “Highlights from the ABT Conference 2019”
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