The Simple Things magazine in November features bookish pleasures: Frances Ambler notes that browsing in a bookstore is enjoyable in itself and carries the promise of pleasurable hours to come.  Highlighting wonderful bookshops around the country, we were proud to find that the article recommends Bluestocking Bookshop tours.

In more good news, The Bookseller reports that books sales are predicted to "outperform retail market this Christmas." I'm looking forward to the reissue of Nell Dunn's Talking to Women, the new Ben Aaronovitch and the audiobook of Michelle Obama's Becoming. 

On which - there will be a Penguin/Waterstones/gal-dem magazine pop-up bookshop open for one week from 23 November at 2 Bury Place in Bloomsbury, London. The shop will feature books by women and non-binary people of colou...