James Rabbit Originals For Sale!

I am selling all the James Rabbit originals as the book is out now and available in all good bookshops and AmazonKeep an eye open on this site as these beautiful works are coming online for sale very soon!! The pictures are on exhibition and for sale at our...

Hay: 11 days, 600 signings and everything at full price

A note from Babette Cole The big tent at Hay is the ultimate pop-up bookshop – and its figures are enough to make grown booksellers weep. Gareth Howell-Jones reflects on the unique challenges of managing it. “HENRY WINKLER gave me a fiver!!” The...

A Good Home Needed

FREE to good home. Beautiful part Belgium Warmblood brood mare. Approx 16.1hh, bay 17 years old. Contact Babette here She has bred some cracking foals which are now eventing. She will be PUT DOWN shortly if a home is not found so to help save her I am offering a FREE...

New era dawns for award-winning Children’s Bookshop

The Muswell Hill Children’s Bookshop, which has traded successfully for 40 years in the “vibrant, book-loving community” in North London, is seeking a new owner “to take it forward for the next generation”. The store – on a road...

Poetry Prize Results

See if your poem has been long or short-listed. LONG & SHORT LISTS The ten poems chosen by competition judge Ruth Padel will be published in the 2014 Fish Anthology. First: Pacific Rim by Chris Stuart Andrews Second: Alice Like the Wind by Jacqueline Haskill...

Penguin Random creates single children’s division

Penguin Random House UK has created a single children’s division, led by Francesca Dow. Dow will be MD, Penguin Random House UK Children’s, and will report to Tom Weldon, CEO, Penguin Random House UK. Philippa Dickinson, currently MD of Random House...