![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shop Manager Claire Harris and Partnerships Manager Tara Spinks joined the bookshop team before opening and are supported by Children’s Buyer Caroline Eade and Booksellers Christy Matthews and Ella Wright. ![]() Every book stocked has its place because somebody loves and recommends it. The core stock was assembled by canvassing hundreds of readers – writers, publishing contacts, and friends (both adults and children) about which books they would most like to find in a bookshop. From winter skies to the tiniest tick of speech to the baking of a Christmas cake, Claire Keegan makes her moments realand then she makes them matter.'. This is the story of what happened in Ireland, told with sympathy and emotional accuracy. Detailed, insightful and written with striking economy of language, it gets the reader remarkably close to the experience of the character, recalling Faulkner’s line about the best fiction being truer than fact. 'In Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan creates scenes with astonishing clarity and lucidity. The emphasis for the curation of the bookshop is on excellence in writing and narrative across a broad range of genres. Small Things Like These brings a fresh and sensitive perspective to an awful period in our collective history. Lutyens and Rubinstein Bookshop was founded in 2009 by literary agents Sarah Lutyens and Felicity Rubinstein. In this episode, I chat with Claire Harris, manager of Lutyens and Rubinstein Bookshop, about how the demographics of Notting Hill affect the curation of the bookshop, their bespoke services, independent stores in the area, and books! ![]()
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