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The Bookshop Band, aka Beth Porter (l.) and Ben Please (r.), are in the midst of a 50-date British tour for their recent album Emerge, Return, which was produced by Pete Townshend of The Who. Shelf Awareness book reviewer Rebecca Foster (center), who lives in England, caught up with them in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, where they played an event at St Nicolas' Church hosted by indie bookstore Mostly Books. The Bookshop Band is familiar to many U.S. booksellers from their bookstore tour in the U.S. and appearance at Winter Institute in Albuquerque, N.Mex., in 2019.