THE BIBLIO FILE is one of the world's leading podcasts about "the book" and an inquiry into the wider world of book culture. Hosted by Nigel Beale it features wide ranging conversations with authors, poets, book publishers, booksellers, book editors, book collectors, book makers, book scholars, book critics, book designers, book publicists, literary agents and other certified bibliophiles.
Roger Chartier​ was born​ in 1945 in Lyon, ​France. He is a giant in the field of ​book​ history ​and the study of ​publishing and reading.​ He teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris,…
Toby Faber grew up with – its books and stories have played an important role in his life. He was the company’s managing director for four years and remains a non-executive director and chairman of sister company Faber Music. He has written two…
Powell’s Books is a chain of bookstores located in and around Portland, Oregon. It claims to be the largest independent new and used bookstore in the world. Powell’s ‘City of Books’ store is located on the edge of downtown and occupies a full city…
Tiphaine Guillermou is an editor with , a design agency with offices in Paris and Lyon. While researching 20th century French book design – so that I’d have some books to hunt down while visiting bookstores in France – I came across a terrific…
Andy Hunter is the founder and CEO of  He’s also the publisher at , at and at , and, as if this isn’t enough, publisher and co-creator at , and co-founder and chairman at .  Despite all of these responsibilities, Andy took the time…
Benoit Forgeot is one of France’s leading antiquarian book dealers. We met in his office, in the Odeon district of Paris to talk about what differentiates French collectors from American; French book binders; secrets; coffee; the manuscript market (…
Anne-Solange Noble has been International Rights Manager at Gallimard since 1992. She was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and graduated from McGill University in Hispanic Literature. After spending two years in Mexico she went to Paris where she…
Lifted from Bill Samuel’s : Itinerant one-time chartered accountant who has lived in Denmark, East Africa, the Gulf (Arabian/Persian, not Texan) and the Caribbean with shorter stints in Eastern Europe and various rather nice small islands. Born in…
John Freeman is an American writer and a literary critic. He was the editor of from 2009 to 2013, and is a former president of the . His writing has appeared in more than 200 English-language publications around the world and he currently edits a…
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