The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale

The Biblio File hosted by Nigel Beale


Latest Episodes

Tim Parks on how to be a better reader
July 31, 2023

No such thing she informed me. So we talked about the "non-role." Combatative she is. Just like Tim Parks. He talks with me here about the other end of the spectrum, the reader. How to be a better one

Marta Sylvestrova on Czech Film Poster Design
July 17, 2023

Marta Sylvestrova is a curator and art critic, and has headed the graphic design department at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, since 1986. She is a graduate ofMasaryk University where s

Nic Bottomley on his Reading Spas and the future of Bookselling
June 15, 2023

Nic Bottomleyis a bookseller, and co-owner with his wife Juliette of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights,an independent bookshop based in Bath that has twice been named UK Independent Bookshop of th

Nana Lohrengel on booksellers school in Milan
June 06, 2023

The Umberto and Elisabetta Mauri Booksellers School was founded in 1983 by Luciano Mauri in memory of his father and his daughter, who died prematurely. "In the course of almost thirty years of teach

Ricky Cavallero on Book Publishing as Partying
May 30, 2023

Ricky Cavallero was CEO of the Spanish-language publisher Random House Mondadori for eight years.In 1995 he joined Mondadori as Director of Marketing Books; two years later he was appointed General M

Matteo Columbo on Falling in Love with Margaret Atwood
May 22, 2023

Matteo Columbo is Margaret Atwood's publicist and personal magician at the Ponte alle Grazie publishing house in Italy. We met in Milan to discuss, among other things, the relationship between magic a

Dan Fridd on the latest in Bookselling Technology
April 25, 2023

I saw Dan Fridd in action promoting Edelweiss "the book industry's platform to market, sell, discover, and order new titles" at the RISE Bookselling Conference in Prague a few weeks ago and knew I had

Maria Hamrefors: Sweden's James Daunt
April 18, 2023

Maria Hamrefors was appointed chairwoman of the Swedish Booksellers Association in 2019 after a long career in the book industry. Previous positions include CEO of Akademibokhandeln, CEO of Bokus, CEO

Barbara Hoepli on how they love Bookstores in Italy
April 09, 2023

Putin is murdering Ukrainians. Xi is likely perpetrating a genocide on theUyghurs. He's alsothreatening to murder Taiwanese, and he's crushingdemocracy in Hong Kong. Trump is ignoring the rule of l

Jeff Deutsch on a new kind of bookstore and the paradox of the browse
April 02, 2023

Jeff Deutsch is a devoted reader, browser and lifelong bookseller. He's the director of Chicago's iconic Seminary Co-op Bookstores, and has written a book entitled In Praise of Good Bookstores (Prince