Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
The man who transformed bookshop chain Foyles
By Will SmaleBusiness
reporter, BBC News
It used to be rather difficult to
actually buy a book at one of the UK's oldest and best-known bookshops -
Foyles.
Run by the indomitable Christina Foyle for 54 years until her death in 1999,
she had an eccentric way of doing things. More
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