Maria Vassilopoulos
@mariavbooks.bsky.social
Publishing Sales Manager/Book Trade Historian and Archivist. PhD in Book Trade History. Ex- bookseller. Book History Bite Newsletter info ⬇️
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' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.'
A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!
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Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!
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Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
' ... a foundational contribution to regional gothic studies.'
A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
A brilliant review of 'Cornish Gothic' by @joanpassey.bsky.social in @victstudies.bsky.social!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...
Discover more about this 'compelling' book here: www.uwp.co.uk/book/cornish...
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My name is Maria Vassilopoulos. I work in the book trade and hold a PhD in its cultural history. This newsletter is my way of sharing my work, new archive finds, and reviews of all things bookish. Cli...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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We are all set up at @buchmesse.de!
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 AM
We are all set up at @buchmesse.de!
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
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Come browse Calon books at Frankfurt!
You can find a range of our latest #books and pick up a catalogue to discover our upcoming spring titles too 📚
You can find a range of our latest #books and pick up a catalogue to discover our upcoming spring titles too 📚
We are all set up at @buchmesse.de!
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
We are thrilled to be celebrating our fantastic #books and showcasing #Wales to the world!
Come find us on IPG stand B70/73 in Hall 6.0, where you can also browse books from our trade imprint, Calon 📚
You can also browse our books on Wales Stand B38.
#FBM25
October 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Come browse Calon books at Frankfurt!
You can find a range of our latest #books and pick up a catalogue to discover our upcoming spring titles too 📚
You can find a range of our latest #books and pick up a catalogue to discover our upcoming spring titles too 📚
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Good to see my recent book 'My Year of Reading Welshly' having a decent showing at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
It’s Frankfurt Book Fair set up day! Look at all the lovely books from @uniwalespress.bsky.social and @calonbooks.bsky.social 📚 🤩
October 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Good to see my recent book 'My Year of Reading Welshly' having a decent showing at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
It’s Frankfurt Book Fair set up day! Look at all the lovely books from @uniwalespress.bsky.social and @calonbooks.bsky.social 📚 🤩
October 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It’s Frankfurt Book Fair set up day! Look at all the lovely books from @uniwalespress.bsky.social and @calonbooks.bsky.social 📚 🤩
I imagined a bookshop in wartime London- you can read the latest Bookshop Through Time post right here:
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The Wartime Bookshop
Welcome back to my series called A Bookshop Through Time.
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September 27, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I imagined a bookshop in wartime London- you can read the latest Bookshop Through Time post right here:
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A mini-history about a certain Mr Cloud and his omnibus library on Book History Bite, subscribe and have a read!
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Mr Cloud's Free Omnibus Libraries
Hi all,
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September 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
A mini-history about a certain Mr Cloud and his omnibus library on Book History Bite, subscribe and have a read!
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Thank you to Sarah for arranging for a copy of her book to be sent to me
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September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thank you to Sarah for arranging for a copy of her book to be sent to me
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Read Alex’s book if you want to know about Welsh literature (you’ll be suprised at how much you already know), plus who doesn’t love discovering new books? 📚 🏴
Thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social Waterstones Newport for including My Year of Reading Welshly on their weekend list of their newest and bestselling hardbacks.
September 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Read Alex’s book if you want to know about Welsh literature (you’ll be suprised at how much you already know), plus who doesn’t love discovering new books? 📚 🏴
Proper Welsh lessons will shortly commence! It’s taken a while to get on the list- a mix of waiting lists and being scared. I’ve picked up words and phrases at work and can construct basic sentences but I need to keep pushing myself each day to learn something new. Wish me luck! 🏴
September 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Proper Welsh lessons will shortly commence! It’s taken a while to get on the list- a mix of waiting lists and being scared. I’ve picked up words and phrases at work and can construct basic sentences but I need to keep pushing myself each day to learn something new. Wish me luck! 🏴
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My thoughts on Seascape by Matthew Yeomans and published by @calonbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to @mariavbooks.bsky.social for sending me a copy to read
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September 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
My thoughts on Seascape by Matthew Yeomans and published by @calonbooks.bsky.social. Thank you to @mariavbooks.bsky.social for sending me a copy to read
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A bit more Hatchard's History, anyone? Want to read about how, on the eve of World War II, it was bought by a fraudster? Take a look at my latest edition of Book History Bite and remember to subscribe to more newsletters:
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Hatchards and Clarence Charles Hatry
Clarence Charles Hatry
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August 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A bit more Hatchard's History, anyone? Want to read about how, on the eve of World War II, it was bought by a fraudster? Take a look at my latest edition of Book History Bite and remember to subscribe to more newsletters:
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A little September Book History Bite update- sign up on the newsletter if you want to receive it to your emails and join my subscribers- you'd be most welcome! 📚
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Nearly Frankfurt, Deadlines and Great Work
Hi all,
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September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A little September Book History Bite update- sign up on the newsletter if you want to receive it to your emails and join my subscribers- you'd be most welcome! 📚
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ALWAYS ❤️ 📚 #IPGAC also so pleased to see @shedworking.bsky.social up on a slide about good bookshop promotions- that video was worth it- shop tour next?
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
ALWAYS ❤️ 📚 #IPGAC also so pleased to see @shedworking.bsky.social up on a slide about good bookshop promotions- that video was worth it- shop tour next?
Michael O’ Mara celebrate 40 years in indie publishing. I’ve never met Leslie O’Mara but she sent me a really nice Biscuit when I helped her find a new sales and marketing assistant when I worked at The Bookseller and i never forgot it! 🍪 📖 #IPGAC
September 16, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Michael O’ Mara celebrate 40 years in indie publishing. I’ve never met Leslie O’Mara but she sent me a really nice Biscuit when I helped her find a new sales and marketing assistant when I worked at The Bookseller and i never forgot it! 🍪 📖 #IPGAC
A little September Book History Bite update- sign up on the newsletter if you want to receive it to your emails and join my subscribers- you'd be most welcome! 📚
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Nearly Frankfurt, Deadlines and Great Work
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September 13, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A little September Book History Bite update- sign up on the newsletter if you want to receive it to your emails and join my subscribers- you'd be most welcome! 📚
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Welsh literature is great!
There’s a evening event with three Welsh poets next week at the Small City Bookshop in East Bristol
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There’s a evening event with three Welsh poets next week at the Small City Bookshop in East Bristol
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Poetry Evening: Showcasing Welsh Talent | Small City Bookshop
Join us for an evening featuring poets from the prestigious Hay Festival Writers at Work programme: Taz Rahman, Rhian Elizabeth and Joshua Jones.
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September 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Welsh literature is great!
There’s a evening event with three Welsh poets next week at the Small City Bookshop in East Bristol
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
There’s a evening event with three Welsh poets next week at the Small City Bookshop in East Bristol
www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...
If you follow me and are a bookseller, what more proof do you need that Welsh publishing is on point? If I were you all I would be getting my orders in so my customers can read this fantastic book. (Ingram, S/R, usual discounts apply).
🎇📚 SHORTLISTED! 📚🎇
We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award!
Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September!
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We are absolutely delighted that Gwyneth Lewis's bold and honest memoir 'Nightshade Mother' has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts Literature award!
Make sure to tune in to the ceremony on 16 September!
www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/articl...
September 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
If you follow me and are a bookseller, what more proof do you need that Welsh publishing is on point? If I were you all I would be getting my orders in so my customers can read this fantastic book. (Ingram, S/R, usual discounts apply).
A bit more Hatchard's History, anyone? Want to read about how, on the eve of World War II, it was bought by a fraudster? Take a look at my latest edition of Book History Bite and remember to subscribe to more newsletters:
open.substack.com/pub/bookhist...
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Hatchards and Clarence Charles Hatry
Clarence Charles Hatry
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August 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A bit more Hatchard's History, anyone? Want to read about how, on the eve of World War II, it was bought by a fraudster? Take a look at my latest edition of Book History Bite and remember to subscribe to more newsletters:
open.substack.com/pub/bookhist...
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Thanks to all those who have read ‘A Bookshop Through Time.’ I plan to publish more of it next week. bookhistorybite.substack.com/p/a-london-b...
A London Bookshop Imagined- 1910-1940
I originally wrote this set of posts in lockdown as a project to chart the ways in which an independent bookshop might have changed over the 20th century.
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August 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Thanks to all those who have read ‘A Bookshop Through Time.’ I plan to publish more of it next week. bookhistorybite.substack.com/p/a-london-b...
I have found a place to keep my series of blogs that I originally published in lockdown, 'A Bookshop Through Time.' Please read the disclaimer first:
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A London Bookshop Imagined- 1910-1940
I originally wrote this set of posts in lockdown as a project to chart the ways in which an independent bookshop might have changed over the 20th century.
bookhistorybite.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I have found a place to keep my series of blogs that I originally published in lockdown, 'A Bookshop Through Time.' Please read the disclaimer first:
bookhistorybite.substack.com/p/a-london-b...
bookhistorybite.substack.com/p/a-london-b...
Part 2 of my Hatchard's story is now up. Take a look here, and please subscribe if you haven't already, to Book History Bite!
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Hatchards, Chains and Waterstones
Hi all,
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August 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Part 2 of my Hatchard's story is now up. Take a look here, and please subscribe if you haven't already, to Book History Bite!
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Lovely morning for a much- needed run.
August 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Lovely morning for a much- needed run.