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Huffington Post - Thomas Horn - 21 October 2025
Reading Is Cool Again – But Why Now?
MSN - James Connolly - 30 July 2025
Hold Fast Bookshop: Inside Leeds' quirkiest book shop making national waves after scrapyard rescue
Yorkshire Evening Post - James Connolly - 30 July 2025
Hold Fast Bookshop: Inside Leeds' quirkiest book shop making national waves after scrapyard rescue
MSN - Lottie Limb - 22 April 2025
Read, think, act: Meet three booksellers guiding people through the climate crisis
Euro News - Lottie Limb - 22 April 2025
Read, think, act: Meet three booksellers guiding people through the climate crisis
The Yorkshire Post - Liana Jacob - 3rd November 2024
Hold Fast Leeds: The floating Yorkshire bookshop located in a 1940s former coal barge boat wins national award
South Leeds Life - 1 November 2024
Leeds Dock’s floating bookshop wins the Booker Prize
Booker Prize - October 29 2024
The Booker Prize Indie Bookshop Spotlight competition 2024: Meet our winning booksellers
Yorkshire Evening Post - Geha Pandy - 31 October 2024
We own the floating Leeds Dock bookshop Hold Fast - there's nothing better than chatting about books all day
Yorkshire Evening Post - James Connolly - 20 May 2024
I moved to Leeds two years ago and here are 13 things I've learnt
Leeds Live - Samuel Port - 21 March 2024
Inside the amazing Leeds book shop floating on the docks
Towpath Talk - Sally Clifford - November 2023
Lord Mayor books a visit to barge
Telegraph & Argus - 30 October 2023
Leeds' Hold Fast Bookshop wins Booker Prize indie award
Leeds List - Ella Aldridge - 26 September 2023
The Best Independent Book Shops in Leeds
Daily Mail - Jessica Taylor - 5 July 2023
We transformed a post-WWII coal barge into a bookshop - it's the perfect way to keep its history alive
The Yorkshire Post - Michael Crossland - 15 Jun 2023
Holdfast Bookshop: Converted Yorkshire coal barge awarded Flagship of the Year by National Historic Ships UK
South Leeds Life - 14 June 2003
Floating bookshop scoops national award
The Hoot - Clementine Hall - 13 June 2023
Holdfast Bookshop awarded ‘Flagship of the Year’ by National Historic Ships UK
Yorkshire Evening Post - Abbey Maclure - 9 June 2023
Hold Fast Leeds Dock: Inside the incredible floating book and plant shop bringing smiles to customers' faces
The Hoot - Sophie Smith - 31 May 2003
World Book Day: The coolest independent book shops to visit in Leeds
Positive News - Ana Santi - April 2023
The UK’s resurgent bookshops are a plot twist nobody saw coming
Living North - 22 March 2023
Three Independent Bookshops to Visit in Yorkshire this World Book Day
Towpath Talk - Sally Clifford - 14 March 2023
New chapter in life of working boat
The Hoot - Sophie Smith - 14 March 2023
The floating plant and book shop on a 76 year old boat that’s bringing people together at Leeds Dock
Yorkshire Evening Post - Michael Crossland & Douglas Whitbread - 1 December 2022
Married couple Victoria and Chris Bonner transform former coal barge moored on Leeds Dock into incredible floating bookshop