As reported in The Age today (29 January), Victorian independent bookshop owner Susanne Horman, owner of Robinsons Bookshop, which has seven stores across Melbourne, duly deleted her X account, after her series of tweets were screen posted on Instagram through the account @coffeebooksandmagic and received consternation and backlash from the book community. Â
The tweets from early December 2023, said, ‘What’s missing from our bookshelves in store? Positive male lead characters of any age, any traditional white family stories, kids’ picture books with just white kids on the cover, and no wheelchair, rainbow or indigenous art, non indig aus history.’
