Meet Shaun. He loves books, discovering bookish treasures and the annual book festival in Wigtown. He does not love customers who openly browse Amazon whilst in his shop, (especially when they “whisper” to their companion that, yes, it is cheaper online,) or customers who complain about his prices, (amusingly, he raises the price of a […]
It’s totally normal to plan your holidays around books, right? My husband fancied going away somewhere this Easter and since he has an actual proper job while I just “look after” our children* and therefore have masses of downtime, (by which I mean that occasionally they have naps At The Same Time, also known in […]
Did you know that ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was banned in China in 1931? Apparently Lewis Carroll’s novel was banned because ‘General Ho Chien thought it was offensive to depict animals talking as if they were people’. If you would enjoy reading a book full of similarly amusing information about books and bookshops then look no […]
I love bookshops. Obviously – being a bookaholic. Recently reading ‘The Bookshop Book’, a book all about, er, bookshops, has reminded me of some of my own favourites and I thought I’d share them. Top of the list, of course, is my fabulous local bookshop, Chapter One, in Woodley, Berkshire, which is home to the […]