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Shop-manager Darran McLaughlin and illustrator Phil Wrigglesworth are crowdfunding to purchase the excellent ARB-member bookshop Bookhaus in Bristol from the current owners who are retiring. It’s really important this fine rabble-rousing shop continues to exist! Please support if you can … Continue reading →

East Bristol Books (EBB) is an independent bookshop located in the Old Market area, embodying the radical, diverse, and community-driven spirit of East Bristol. EBB specializes in: Independent & Small Press Publishing: Highlighting unique voices and overlooked stories. Translated Literature … Continue reading →

Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2022 Winner Announcement TIME:29.11.2022 : 18:00 – 19:00 FEATURED SPEAKERS Koshka Duff, Florian Grosset, Hsiao-Hung Pai, Rhian E Jones & A Contributor To Empire’s Endgame The Bread and Roses Award is a book prize with a difference: presented … Continue reading →

Join us as we host a book fair, discussions and workshops exploring the legacies and futures of radical bookselling. Radical bookshops, once found in every major town and city, are spaces of possibility and resistance, offering quiet browsing, public discussions … Continue reading →

More inspiring news as two more bookshops join the ARB! Back To Books in Birmingham aims to provide a platform for diverse voices, with a focus on queer, feminist, anti-racist and Birmingham-centric titles. The shop can be found at Red … Continue reading →

We are delighted that New Beacon Books, specialists in African and Caribbean literature since 1966, have joined the ARB! Following a crowdfunding campaigns in January 2022 New Beacon are currently considering their next step so as to keep the shop … Continue reading →

Its very cheering to see so many new radical bookshops not only opening but thriving. We’re happy to announce nine new members of the ARB, with the latest member Lockdown Books literally opening its doors for the first time today … Continue reading →

With bookshops closed for much of the last year many of us have turned to online book-buying. New platforms such as hive.com and bookshop.org have sprung up as rivals to Amazon and some independent booksellers have their own online sales … Continue reading →

Ross Bradshaw, activist, publisher and writer, was recently invited to Haarlem in The Netherlands to speak about radical bookselling. He knows his trade, which is why Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop, which he founded in 2013, was named Independent Bookshop of … Continue reading →

A new member to the Alliance is Connolly’s Wee Bookshop, run by Christopher Connolly. Christopher used to jointly run The Besotted Wretch in Sheffield but the rent was too much to survive so he has started again inside Carlisle’s historic … Continue reading →