In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
Vivian Archer has been named as a Bookshop Hero in a new annual initiative celebrating the best of bookselling in the UK and Ireland. It also recognises the efforts of booksellers to reach readers with books in these difficult times. The search for bookshop heroes is made by The Bookseller, and supported by the Booksellers Association and publishers HarperCollins.
Interested in learning more about Newham Bookshop and some of the people connected with it? We have four lessons for classroom or family use developed from On the Record’s oral history project centered around Newham Bookshop, Writing and Reading Newham. Click here for full details.
