Lisburn Blog

We are pleased to receive the news that The Lisburn Press has received a top publishing award, being selected as the top publisher in the Baton Rouge area, as well as one of the top publishers in the deep south.  We appreciate this important award, and Earl, Joel authors, who are looking for a publisher to contact us.

August 9th is National Book Lovers Day-a day for those who can’t live without books and reading. Books carried memories from the past as seeing an old book will always transport you back to the time in your life when you read it. In short, books are magical. To check out a wide variety of books, go to www.thelisburnpress.com.

 

My good friend from college days at the University of North Carolina died recently. Jim Reston wrote 18 books. He was a historian and novelist, and he provided a 96-page “interrogation” memo for David Frost’s TV interviews that prodded Nixon to admit, “I let the American people down” over Watergate. He was a great athlete at Carolina, and still holds the record for scoring the most goals in a soccer match there. We last visited in Linville, North Carolina on his book tour a year ago. During our Carolina days, Jim and I would have dinner each evening at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house. I wish our conversations had been recorded as we made a gallant effort to solve most of the world’s problems. Jim was 82 years old and died of cancer. I will sure miss my friend of 70 years.  To read his full biography, Click Here.

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Oh you booklovers might want to check out this new film just come out about bookstores.

You cannot go to Paris, if you are a book lover, and not spend some time at the Shakespeare bookstore on the West Bank by Notre Dame cathedral. It is so famous that people stand in line to get in. I picked up some good ideas for The Lisburn Press and bought way too many books.

 

We thought you might like to see the entrance to our Lisburn Press office. Our office is loaded with books as you can imagine. All the many books we have published, as well as literally thousands of other books in our collection from all over the world. We hope you will be able to come visit one day.

A new book has been published by The Lisburn Press about the life of Monroe philanthropist and successful businessman Tom Scott. He touched the lives and helped so many students throughout North Louisiana. Find out more about Tom by going to our homepage at www.thelisburnpress.com.

 

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.”

Van Gogh