Zoë Chatfield

Bookseller with perpetually wonky glasses

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[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

New year but same old message: Amazon does what it does by having an enormous, exploitative, global infrastructure.

Saying to another business that you chose them over A, is not the compliment you think it is when you're expecting them to pull off the same scale of operation

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

PSA 📢

You do not get bonus points for buying from non-Amazon outlets if you then expect Amazon-level infrastructure!

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

So, this place is no fun anymore and I've headed for bluer skies. Come find me there to talk about books and badmouth Amazon https://t.co/rtkgCRnjYZ

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Returning to the UK rental market after 4 years away is going fantastically thank you, I've sent approximately 845 emails to request property viewings and have received exactly 0 replies

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

This #OpeningCeremony makes you realise why we usually do it in a stadium doesn't it?

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

I returned to bookselling at the beginning of the month and of course immediately got to work on pulling together a display 📚

[RIAS Bookshop @BookshopRIAS]

Introducing our new Diver[city] display!

We've pulled together some of our favourite books about cities and the diversity of life in them to give our front table a revamp.

Where would you begin?

[RIAS Bookshop @BookshopRIAS]

July has been an exciting month for the bookshop as we have welcomed 2 new booksellers.

Zoë will read anything but particularly loves nonfiction that delves into social & political issues and these are the books at the top of her recommendation list recently:

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

I hear the press have got hold of some pictures and so I have been forced to make this statement. Needless to say, I apologise. https://t.co/mNRsQ57iTF

[Joe Lycett @joelycett]

🎇 https://t.co/sR1iQ0rOJQ

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

@corinaromonti Amazing cover!

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Starting the week by reading the @BackstoryLdn magazine and it is full of so much joy and enthusiasm for books, and it is doing that magical thing of making me want to read everything and anything I can get my hands on

[grace @suzuranfairy]

Found a very cool bookstore in Tokyo! Each square on the bookshelves is rented to a different person. The renters are free to curate and sell whatever books they want in their shelf space. My favorite was the shelf filled with handmade photo books of the renter’s cat

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Excellent hardback design here, and not a sprayed edge in sight

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Not that I needed another reason to love Canongate but...

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Returning to the UK the day before local elections and travelling on the trains on a bank holiday weekend has really been a crash course in reintegration

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

@samuel_mcqueen Epic is definitely the rught word! The Netherlands, Austria, Romania, Turkey, Georgia, plane to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, back through Kazakhstan to China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and then Indonesia

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

Back in September, my partner and I set out to make it to Indonesia from the UK without flying.

221 days and 47 books later, we managed to cover over 25,000km and we only had to take one (1) flight. I'm calling that a success 🫡

[Madeleine Feeny @MadeleineFeeny]

I wish everyone who's ever complained about the price of books (often while slurping a £12 cocktail) could read this excellent, sobering breakdown. It takes a village to raise a book, people, and every villager needs paying!

[Galley Beggar Press @GalleyBeggars]

What does a book cost?

Back in 2015 we ran some calculations to figure out what a book costs, what it sells for, and where the money goes. We've done the sums again - for 2023 -and you head here for some grim, but hopefully also interesting, reading: https://t.co/oeM6dqJl9P

[Zoë Chatfield @readabilitea]

No matter where in the world I am, no matter how small a place, I will *always* find the local stash of John Grisham

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