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Meet The Author Jo Seaman presenting

Meet The Author Jo Seaman presenting
Prospero's Books held  "Meet the Author" event with Jo Seaman presenting her book "Roses Down The Barrel Of A Gun" on Friday, 16 June. Jo Seaman (formerly Jo Bakowski) lived in Georgia from 2001 to 2005, when she was Director of the British Council in Georgia. These were exciting times, spanning the heady period of the Rose Revolution of 2003. Her experiences made such a lasting impression on her that she was compelled to write an autobiographical account in her book, ‘Roses Down the Barrel of a Gun, Georgia: Love and Revolution.’ The book has been well received and 'LoveReading', the UK’s leading book recommendation website, gave it the accolade of 'Indie Book We Love'. Jo and her husband, former diplomat, Mike (whom she met in Tbilisi and subsequently married), visited Georgia again in June, a visit much delayed previously by the pandemic. Jo is now a writer/researcher and with Mike runs a small consultancy firm. They also give presentations of a personal account of Georgia's Rose Revolution (and the book), to UK universities, cultural groups and literary festivals.  “Such a wonderful book! Full of detail and color, just like the Georgia we have come to love. Thank you for this contribution to the history of contemporary Georgia. It is a must read.” Paul Joyal, Managing Director, Public Safety and Homeland Security Practice at National Strategies, Inc. "Thank you so much for arranging the evening and for the photos.  We had such a wonderful evening, which is another v Next

Prospero’s Books opening new store at Orbeliani Bazaar

Prospero’s Books opening new store at Orbeliani Bazaar
Prospero’s Books has been operating in Georgia since 1999 and was founded by two American brothers. It has been the first English Bookstore in the entire Caucasus. And one of the distinctive bookstore-shop that roasts it’s own coffee and makes its own coffee blend.   In early 2000, expatriate customers used to call it “the place to visit when feeling a homesick”, and local customers used to call Prospero “ a single light of that time” which was bringing English literature, educational materials and fresh roasted coffee experience in Tbilisi, Georgia. Prospero’s has long history on Rustaveli avenue and everybody remembers it with it distinctive Courtyard . After Covid period, Prospero’s decided to expand its wings.   As Orbeliani Bazaar displays mostly food courts, lots of cafes here sell coffee drinks, Prospero’s decided to offer differentiated product of ground Coffee Beans  which we roast freshly since 1999. Besides English literature, regional interest titles, maps and greeting cards will be something that we believe fulfill the customers’s demand for easy and fast purchase at Orbeliani Bazaar.    The official opening of our new store will be on Wednesday, 22nd of February at 12:00 am. The opening includes lunch buffet and special sale for this occasion.   We're thrilled to have new location at Orbeliani Bazaar. This has been an amazing process and we can't wait to share the next step of the journey with you. Next

American Author Eric Lee visits Prosperos Books for book Signing

American Author Eric Lee visits Prosperos Books for book Signing
On Friday, May 20, author Eric Lee presented his two most recent books at Prospero's.  The Experiment: Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921, available in English and Georgian, tells the story of the first Georgian republic.  His second book on Georgian history, Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge - April-May 1945, also available in the two languages, is set in what he described as 'a darker time' when young Georgian men had to choose between the two nightmares of Nazism and Stalinism.  After a short presentation about the two books, Lee did a reading from Night of the Bayonets which was followed by a lively Q&A session with the audience. Lee is currently a Writer in Residence at the Writers' House in Tbilisi where he is working on his next book on a Georgian theme - telling the story of the August 1924 uprising in Georgia against Bolshevik rule.  The Experiment has been a Prospero's best-seller since it was first published in 2018 and has gone through several re-printings in its Georgian edition.  The English edition has also now sold off, but Prospero's was fortunately able to order the last remaining copies from the U.K. publisher.  The Georgian editions of both books were published by Ziari Press and translated by Keti Kantaria. Next

Prosperos History

Prosperos History
The beginnings of Prospero’s Books is described in the article published in the then popular English language magazine – Tbilisi Pastimes. The year was 1998; our manager was pregnant with her first child – Saba. The big question was who would arrive first into the world, Prospero’s or Saba? In the end Prospero’s won by a few days. Today both are thriving and the manager is still our Executive Director. Being the first English language bookshop/café, not only in Georgia but the whole Caucasus region, made year one a full-on enterprise. We cut the ribbon at our launch, then looking over our shoulder at our first proud delivery of books - piled up on the floor, still with no shelves to put them on. Then, miraculously the shelves were finished and Prospero’s slowly evolved through its complex childhood of power-cuts, wild-west capitalism and Kafkaesque government bureaucracy. Until 2003 different taxation levels applied to different literary subjects. Fiction and science were exempt, but tax had to be paid on children’s and non-fiction books. All of our shipments had to be vetted by the Ministry of Culture book by book, just to certify which belonged to which subject and also trying to convince Customs that Shakespeare was fiction. Fortunately, those days are well gone. We celebrated our 20th birthday last year, during which years our main shop has doubled in size, and we opened two new branches in Tbilisi. Below are some key moments in what seems like our epic history – in various forms. Next

INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOPS

INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOPS
by Anthony Gardner  For the window of his bookshop, Irvine Welsh has chosen Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and William Burroughs’ The Place of Dead Roads. Terry Pratchett’s shop, Narrativia, is displaying Neil Gaiman’s American Gods and Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots and Leaves. A few doors along, Tony Parsons has shelves stacked with John le Carré and Mario Puzo. Welcome to the newest address in bookselling, Author Street.      None of these shops have a physical existence: they are part of  a recently launched website, myindependentbookshop.co.uk, on which anyone can post a selection of books they love. If another reader buys a book you recommend, a percentage of the price goes to your favourite real bookshop. Penguin Random House, who created the website, deny that it is trying to compete with Amazon – but to those who hate Amazon’s Godzilla-like dominance of the market, myindependentbookshop is a heartening salvo in the fight-back by traditional booksellers.      ‘I love the idea of this website,’ says Felicity Rubinstein, co-owner of the Notting Hill bookshop and literary agency Lutyens & Rubinstein, ‘because what they’ve identified is that Amazon and its algorithms aren’t personal – and the beauty of an independent bookstore is that it provides you with recommendations from people you trust.’      With fewer than 1,000 independent bookshops left in the UK, the success of Lutyens & Rubinst Next