'These Are Spaces to Be Protected'
"Just because there's not so much of a desperate 'use it or lose it' situation, which was so pertinent during the pandemic, it's still important to keep in people's minds the value of bookshops and all that we do. Because it's not just the bookselling and the transactional element of buying and selling, it's the amount of events that happen in bookshops, something which seems to grow and grow because it's about enhancing a reader's experience around a book; we have a culturally important position. These are spaces to be protected."
--Fleur Sinclair, incoming president of the Booksellers Association of the U.K. & Ireland and owner of owner of Sevenoaks Bookshop, in an interview with the Bookseller
