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Poor Tracy! 🤣

Oh no, I now want to immediately go to this bookshop and spend a large amount.. 😬

It is a quiet weekday signing. Fortunately one couple need six signed copies. Browsing to pass the time, I am again mistaken for a bookseller.

'Could you help me with the Paddington Bear books? I have a granddaughter in Perth.'

Of course I can. We find the adventure that seems exactly right, and then the lady asks me how long I have worked here. I explain that I don't - that I've simply been signing my book.

[Rubicund Radical Bookshop offers] the second transcendent moment of the tour, sipping coffee and seated by a shop window displaying a Robert Mapplethorpe photography book, as a sense of hope grows in me that there really could be a radical future with acceptance of everyone for whoever they may be, and quality cake for all. Rather than being a champagne socialist, I may become a Battenberg Bolshevik.

Dangerous for the wishlist...

Also a Christmas book - this is the book I wish I could've written! Oh well, I can still emulate the research!

20/23 This book spoke to my heart. What I wouldn‘t give to be allowed to spend my times touring bookshops! It was a love letter to bookshops, book people, and books. I listened to this one which was great because it was narrated by the author but I do wonder if the physical book has a list of bookshops/ mentioned books at the back? Does anyone know? Photo from the garden of one of my fave bookshops in Alfriston.

A Christmas gift from my other half and I very much enjoyed it. Now I have a long list of book shops to visit

This was a fun read to dip in and out of, although it got a bit samey in places.

The author decided to promote his previous book by visiting 100 bookshops across Britain, just after bookshops re-opened after forced pandemic closures. Along the way he unearths unusual, mainly non-fiction, books in charity shops to use as prompts in his book talks.

This was my last book for #nonfictionnovember