BOOKSELLERS
( SEVEN PEOPLE )
( SINCE 2011 · TWO ROOMS )
The people who stay
Seven people keep Shiori Books. Hanna Moreau and Callum Reid opened it in 2011. The others arrived between 2015 and 2021, and they are still here.
( SEVEN NAMES )
Seven names
Seven people keep the shop, and the list is short on purpose.
They are the people you will see at the counter, in the back room, or at the bench. Regulars sometimes stay after closing to finish a chapter. The shop is still the two rooms it grew into: the front room for new books, the back room for everything Callum buys and for Saturday night.
Hanna Moreau
founder, buys the new books
2011
Callum Reid
co-owner, second-hand & rare
2011
Amara Osei
hosts the Saturday reading
2015
Tomasz Wilk
bindery and repairs
2016
Lucía Ferrer
children’s shelves, story hour
2018
Ravi Menon
orders and the shelf subscription
2019
Elin Sørensen
Saturdays, poetry shelves
2021
Ask for any of them by name at the counter.
( A NOTE FROM THE BACK ROOM )
A note from Amara Osei
I have hosted the Saturday reading since 2015. The back room is already the second-hand room. At 19:00 we open the door for the evening, and at 19:30 someone reads until 20:30. There are 30 seats. A seat is £5, and that £5 comes off any book you buy before you leave. Some nights I introduce a guest and then sit down. Elin Sørensen looks after the poetry shelves and is in the room on Saturdays. If you would rather come in the morning, Lucía Ferrer’s story hour is the second Saturday of the month at 11:00, and it is free. The next translator’s night is Mireille Dufort, with me, on 07.11.
