Well, the party season is upon us and Christmas is fast approaching. We’ve had our first Christmas card (from a subscriber!) and spent a delightful evening with local subscribers at The Old Harlotry in Canterbury to launch our Winter issue.

Now it’s no more parties for the time being and all hands to the deck to get gift-wrapped copies of the Winter issue, books and back issues off in time for Christmas. We’ve got quite a production line of ribbon-tying, parcel-wrapping, card-writing, envelope-stuffing and posting (not to mention dog-walking and tea-making) on the go.

We’re also having fun planning the shop’s New Year facelift and have been thrilled to hear nice things about both the shop and SF from the literary world.

Robert McCrum in the Guardian

Boyd Tonkin in the Independent