This article was first published in the Times Online, on November 09, 2004 After 25 years of running The Travel Bookshop in west London, Sarah Anderson sold up and has taken off around the world with books for company. In her latest exclusive dispatch for Times Online, Sarah writes an e-mail from Boston. A flat … Read more
This article was first published in the Times Online, on November 02, 2004 After 25 years of running The Travel Bookshop in west London, Sarah Anderson sold up and has taken off around the world with books for company. In her third exclusive dispatch for Times Online, Sarah writes an e-mail from New York. Despite … Read more
This article was first published in the Times Online, on October 28, 2004 After 25 years of running The Travel Bookshop in west London, Sarah Anderson sold up and has taken off around the world with books for company. In her second dispatch, Sarah writes an e-mail from the Hudson Valley in New York State. … Read more
This article was first published in the Times Online, on October 25, 2004 After 25 years of running The Travel Bookshop in west London, Sarah Anderson sold up and has taken off around the world with books for company. In her first dispatch, Sarah writes an e-mail from Philadelphia Sarah Anderson I’ve been planning my … Read more
Written by Sarah Anderson and published in the Independent on 17/02/12 Adrian Cave, who has died from cancer, was an immensely creative and fun person to be with. An architect and town planner, he did much work on improving access for the disabled. He was born in Great Bromley, Essex in 1935 and was educated … Read more
Five months have passed since my last blog and I’ve almost forgotten how to do them. I can’t believe that at one point I was doing these on a daily basis. So what’s new in the publishing world? More returns – so I am thinking of remaindering Halfway to Venus – poor love – does … Read more
Written by Sarah Anderson and publishing in the Independent on 21/05/09 Ellie Maxwell, who has died from cancer aged 32, was multi-talented, with an ability to engage in a wide variety of projects with an infectious generosity and enthusiasm. When she was 21 and at Edinburgh University she went to Bosnia to visit her father … Read more
I’m increasingly thinking of Venus as last year’s project … however still have to do a VAT return and I had to send a cheque to Central my distributors because of all the returns. The system is really skewed when bookshops can send back returns indefinitely – it means no one – publisher, author, distributor … Read more
Another long gap – but until last weekend Venus seemed to have been sleeping. However there was a review in last weekend’s Mail on Sunday by Kathryn Hughes – 8 months after publication. But it was a much-needed boost and was due to Marilyn Warnick at the MOS to whom I belatedly sent the book. … Read more
Did boring things like the VAT return last week. Christmas sales of Venus have been dire – Amazon keeps flagging up ‘more on the way’ – but neither Bertram’s or Gardner’s figures change. Very mysterious. I have spoken to the agent, Melissa, in New York; she was enthusiastic and said that someone else in the … Read more