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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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 📚 🤩
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! 🏴
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
Lovely morning for a much- needed run.
August 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Lovely morning for a much- needed run.
So pleased to see two titles from trade imprint of University of Wales Press, Calon, available in Waterstone’s pre-publication campaign. This will help us bring the stories of Wales to anyone who wants to read them in the UK and beyond. 🏴 📚
www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...
www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...
July 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So pleased to see two titles from trade imprint of University of Wales Press, Calon, available in Waterstone’s pre-publication campaign. This will help us bring the stories of Wales to anyone who wants to read them in the UK and beyond. 🏴 📚
www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...
www.waterstones.com/campaign/jul...
Quick Welsh lesson at a London Paddington 🏴
July 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Quick Welsh lesson at a London Paddington 🏴
Not sure if this is a sign to keep up my book trade history- my partner is signing in a choir concert (rock choir) in a bit, and I just walked into the graveyard of the church it is in. I looked down and look what greeted me, a @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social bookplate!
July 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Not sure if this is a sign to keep up my book trade history- my partner is signing in a choir concert (rock choir) in a bit, and I just walked into the graveyard of the church it is in. I looked down and look what greeted me, a @nationalbooktokens.bsky.social bookplate!
The Bookseller’s Association tree is real. It lives in the gardens of Stationer’s Hall and is the oldest plane tree in London. When the Hall was the granter of copyright if there were books or printed materials deemed ‘unsuitable’ they would be burnt near the foot of the tree.
June 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Bookseller’s Association tree is real. It lives in the gardens of Stationer’s Hall and is the oldest plane tree in London. When the Hall was the granter of copyright if there were books or printed materials deemed ‘unsuitable’ they would be burnt near the foot of the tree.
Very excited to have @shedworking.bsky.social fantastic new book out with @calonbooks.bsky.social next month on my desk this morning! Why not pre-order a copy so you can #ReadWelshly this summer? ☀️ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... 📚
June 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Very excited to have @shedworking.bsky.social fantastic new book out with @calonbooks.bsky.social next month on my desk this morning! Why not pre-order a copy so you can #ReadWelshly this summer? ☀️ blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... 📚
The mermaid went on their first ever title published in 1936. This image was in the newspapers after the Penguin books takeover but the two companies worked together because Penguin bought lots of rights for their paperbacks from MJ 📚 (a clever business model).
June 17, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The mermaid went on their first ever title published in 1936. This image was in the newspapers after the Penguin books takeover but the two companies worked together because Penguin bought lots of rights for their paperbacks from MJ 📚 (a clever business model).
This is one of my favourite letters to The Bookseller mag in the 19th century from a very disgruntled bookseller 🤣 📚 I remember clearly I had been going through pages and pages for a good couple of hours and this just made me giggle 🤭
June 16, 2025 at 7:42 PM
This is one of my favourite letters to The Bookseller mag in the 19th century from a very disgruntled bookseller 🤣 📚 I remember clearly I had been going through pages and pages for a good couple of hours and this just made me giggle 🤭
June 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Useful Welsh phrase for me 📚 🏴
June 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Useful Welsh phrase for me 📚 🏴
My mum made me birthday cupcakes 🥰 😭
June 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My mum made me birthday cupcakes 🥰 😭
Bookshops of Galway 🇮🇪 📚
June 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bookshops of Galway 🇮🇪 📚
Birthday treat on the Aran islands 🎈
June 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Birthday treat on the Aran islands 🎈
Arrived in Ireland and it would be rude not to!
May 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Arrived in Ireland and it would be rude not to!
A flaming good read? Not sure the title is catchy enough 🤔 🔥 📚
May 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
A flaming good read? Not sure the title is catchy enough 🤔 🔥 📚
An Albion Printing Press is always lovely to bump into- this one is at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath as part of a brilliant print-making exhibition. These presses were used to print books until the mid-1800s 📚
May 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
An Albion Printing Press is always lovely to bump into- this one is at Victoria Art Gallery in Bath as part of a brilliant print-making exhibition. These presses were used to print books until the mid-1800s 📚
Katherine Mansfield is pure genius.
May 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Katherine Mansfield is pure genius.
Today I donned the relevant robes at the Royal Festival Hall and graduated with a PhD in Book Trade History from UCL. It was an amazing experience and the culmination of almost a decade of research and writing. 📚
May 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Today I donned the relevant robes at the Royal Festival Hall and graduated with a PhD in Book Trade History from UCL. It was an amazing experience and the culmination of almost a decade of research and writing. 📚
Morning Foyles is blissful 📚 recommend it!
May 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Morning Foyles is blissful 📚 recommend it!
I went to the 35th British Book Awards (Nibbies) last night. It was lovely to see everyone in our trade win awards and for people to talk about the real impact books have on society at large. One thing I wasn’t expecting was to be credited in the history of the awards- much appreciated. 📚
May 13, 2025 at 6:10 AM
I went to the 35th British Book Awards (Nibbies) last night. It was lovely to see everyone in our trade win awards and for people to talk about the real impact books have on society at large. One thing I wasn’t expecting was to be credited in the history of the awards- much appreciated. 📚