The Mr B's Bookshop
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The Mr B's Bookshop
We invite you to turn your laptop on, plug in your earphones, and spend a half hour in the company of books and the team at Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, an independent bookshop located in Bath.
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The Flamboyancy of Children's Authors
Welcome to the final episode of A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors Season 2! We are so excited to be joined by bestselling author Roshani Chokshi! He...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Michelle Paver
On the third episode of the season, we celebrate the final finale of the beloved Wolf Brother series by Michelle Paver. After many false endings, Wolf...
The Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Sophie Anderson
Today, we are joined by Sophie Anderson, award winning author of the House with Chicken Legs. To celebrate her newest publication, 'The Thief Who Sang...
The Flamboyancy of Children's Authors
Join us on the first episode of season two of our children's podcast! We are so excited to be speaking with Axie Oh, bestselling author of The Girl Wh...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors: On YA Crime
On the final episode of this first season, we are joined by Mr B's bookseller Rhian who shares her expertise on YA crime reads with some great recomme...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors: On Picture Books
On this episode of the Mr B's Bookshop Podcast, we talk picture books and all the lovely pictures and stories they give us. Mr B's Bookseller Laura sh...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Tim Probert
This week on the podcast, we celebrate kids graphic novels! Hannah is joined by fellow Mr B's Bookseller Tess Mahuta, who shares her incredible knowle...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Kieran Larwood
On this episode of the Mr B's podcast, Hannah and renowned Mr b's bookseller Ed discuss The Legend of Podkin One Ear and the amazing fantasy books for...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Serena Patel
On episode 5 of the Mr B's Podcast, Hannah and fellow bookseller Tom Mooney discuss how much young readers books have changed and how to graduate chil...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Dr. Mya-Rose Craig
Joining us today on the podcast is co-owner of Mr b's Nic Bottomley, speaking about how the children's nonfiction genre has developed, and Dr. Mya-Ros...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Laura Wood
Today on the Mr B's Podcast, Hannah and fellow bookseller Amy discuss the ever growing world of young adult literature and why Mr B's loves Laura Wood...
A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors with Pam Smy
Join us on the second episode of the Flamboyancy of Children's Authors Season of the Mr B's Podcast as our host Hannah chats with bookseller Gemma abo...
Mr B's Book Shop Podcast: A Flamboyancy of Children's Authors
Welcome to the inaugural episode of The Flamboyancy of Children's Authors podcast season, the first podcast season ever to celebrate the wonderful wor...
Legacy Season Finale
Bringing the Legacy Season of the podcast to a close, Ed, Kate and Jess sit down in Mr B's legendary bibliotherapy room, for the first in-person recor...
Legacy Season Ep 5: Letters to the Earth
In the penultimate episode of #MrBsLegacySeason, we find out about a movement which gave rise to a campaign, which gave birth to a thousand written re...
Ep 4: A Childhood Legacy with Julianne Pachico
In the fourth episode of this season, Jess chats to author Julianne Pachico. Julianne's debut was 'The Lucky Ones', a collection of interlinked stori...
Translation as Legacy
In the third episode of our Legacy Season, Jess talks to translators Julia Sanches and Daniel Hahn about the ways in which any book is itself a legacy...
The Legacy of Trees with Michael Christie
In the second episode of the Legacy Season, Tom Mooney sits down for a virtual chat with novelist Michael Christie, author of the gorgeous novel Green...
The Legacy Season Ep 1: Things Passed On
Welcome to a brand new season of the Mr B's Podcast - the place where our disembodied voices explore books, ideas and, quite often, very random side-t...
Justice Season Finale
We got there! Join Lottie, Nic and Jess as they look back on the experiment that was #MrBsJusticeSeason, our very first themes season of the podcast....
Maeve McClenaghan on a year of exploring UK homelessness
We've arrived at episode 5 of #MrBsJusticeSeason. Join us as we talk to journalist Maeve McClenaghan about her experience of a year investigating the...
Petina Gappah on Colonial History and Historical Fiction
The Justice Season of the podcast continues through the autumn 2020, a fortnight and many books at a time. For episode four, we're delighted to share...
Tales of Two Planets: John Freeman on climate injustice and the imagination
In the third episode of our Justice Season, we talk to writer, poet, editor and all-round fantastic word- person John Freeman. Editor of the biannual...
Writing a protest with Niven Govinden
Join us as we plunge deeper into versions and stories of justice in the second episode of our autumn 2020 season.
This is such a special one. We...
Launch of the Justice Season
Welcome back to the Mr B's podcast!
After a long break, we're re-launching our mix of bookseller-chats and author interviews, but this t...
Between These Walls: about fictional houses
October really lends itself to thinking about atmospheric old houses, and this is what we’re doing in this episode of the podcast. We chat to Claire F...
Literally an Emergency: climate crisis in fiction
As an increasing number of us wake up to the climate and ecological crises, it becomes clear that climate change is as much a question of narrative, s...
Two Bs in a Pod featuring Jess Kidd
Sherlock and Watson may be the epitome of a mystery-solving duo, but when put to the task of finding others, the Mr B’s team went down some unexpected...
Writing as Witnessing: a conversation with Valeria Luiselli
This month Jess talks to the Mexican author Valeria Luiselli about her most recent novel "The Lost Children Archive", a bold and wise book which is as...
Same but Different featuring Edward Carey and Simon Garfield
The Mr B's Podcast (we're so sorry!) has been on a winter break, but we had a good excuse: we were hard at work with our shop expansion. Suitably, we...
Magpies of Fiction: when real people become characters
A real person? As in a REAL person? The cheek of it!
This month we're looking at great (as in bold, irreverent, inventive, insightful...) exampl...
Worlds Turned Upside down: public and personal disasters
Autumn is here and we've had a busy summer indeed. At the end of July, a few members of the Mr B's team set off to sell books at WOMAD festival, where...
The Water-filled Balloon: writing and addictions
When it comes to addictions, books and coffee may not be among the more serious, but they're definitely cravings which abound in the Mr B's team. Insp...
Written in the Body
Borrowing the title from the fabulous Jeanette Winterson novel from 1992, Jess and Lottie present a choice of books which make the human body strange...
Invasive Species
In May 2018's podcast we look at the intrigues of ecosystems, and the books that delve right in to them. Which fury or winged inhabitants really belon...
School Days with Tara Westover and Little Miss B
In March Nic sat down with two eager learners to chat about their experience of education and what going to school is good for. First up is the autho...
Fairy Tales in Disguise with Jen Campbell
The sight of a magic tree, or thorns and thistles, on a book cover will immediately catch the attention of a few the Mr B's team members. We kick off...
What it's Like to Be: books on consciousness
Welcome to our first podcast of 2018. One of the last events we hosted in 2017 was an evening with the neuroscientist Adrian Owen, whose research over...
Is this Seat Taken? Odd encounters in fic and non-fic
Are you the kind of person who will spontaneously start chatting to the passenger next to you on the train? Or are you more comfortable reading about...
National Poetry Day 2017
September 28th is National Poetry Day 2017. Listen to Jess and Lucinda dive into poetry which explores this year’s theme, Freedom, from the freedom of...