Rachael Beale
Website Managing Editor
Rachael is the web editor for the Bookshop site. Armed with Grammar and Good Sense, she’s equally good at wrangling words and wrangling code. She’s got a keen nose for new writing, and can smell a proof copy a mile away: no matter what it is, she will have read it first.
Ask Rachael about: contemporary fiction, short stories, crime.
Our booksellers
Find out more here about our expert team - who they are, what they're reading, what they like and what they don't.
Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator
Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
Senior Bookseller and Events Manager
Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop
Deputy Manager
Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
Senior Bookseller and Website Editor
Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator
Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
Bookshop Retail Manager
Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator
Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
Senior Bookseller and Events Manager
Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop
Deputy Manager
Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
Senior Bookseller and Website Editor
Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator
Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
Bookshop Retail Manager
Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
Senior Bookseller and Events Manager
Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop
Deputy Manager
Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
Senior Bookseller and Website Editor
Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator
Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
Bookshop Retail Manager
Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator
Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
Deputy Manager
Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry
Senior Bookseller and Website Editor
Ask Gayle about: fiction, cookbooks, children’s books, photography, and graphic novels
Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator
Ask John about: poetry, natural history, crime, his personal rankings of Mr Kipling cakes
Bookshop Retail Manager
Ask Natalia about: fiction, children’s, photography and feminist studies
Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator
Ask Charlie about: music, biography, history, cultural studies, theatre, dance
Senior Bookseller and Events Manager
Ask Claire about: art, fiction, graphic novels, what’s coming up in the events calendar, hiring the shop