Book after Book

Hi Chloe! First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the publication of Bookshop Girl . Can you please briefly tell us what it is about? A: Hi Silvia! Thank you so much for having me and asking me to talk about my first ever book! Bookshop Girl is the story of Paige Turner, a sixteen year old bookseller who tries her best to save her town’s one and only bookshop when it faces closure. It’s an introduction to activism and girl power. Friendships and unlikely allies. Sulky art school hunks and badly-chopped fringes.  Did you have the plot entirely figured out when you started writing or did it develop before your eyes as the characters grew on the page and did something that you were not expecting? A: When I started writing, all I knew was that if it was going to be about growing up, it was going to be about growing up in a bookshop. I (like Paige) started bookselling when I was sixteen, so bookshops and the people in them made my teen years what they were. I can’t th...

By Chloe Coles Published by Hot Key Books Synopsis: Bennett's Bookshop has always been a haven for sixteen-year-old Paige Turner. It's a place where she can escape from her sleepy hometown, hang out with her best friend, Holly, and also earn some money. But, like so many bookshops, Bennett's has become a 'casualty of the high street' - it's strapped for cash and going to be torn down. Paige is determined to save it but mobilising a small town like Greysworth is no mean feat. Time is ticking - but that's not the only problem Paige has. How is she going to fend off the attractions of beautiful fellow artist, Blaine? And, more importantly, will his anarchist ways make or break her bookshop campaign? How did this book end up in my hands? I entered a competition to win a copy of this book ahead of publication date and I was terribly lucky as it had been on my radar for some time. Was it a page-turner? Once I started reading about the adventures of...