The bookshop around the corner

Today is Bookshop Day , one of my favourite Saturdays of the year. It's a day for getting up early, starting a long journey and visiting as many bookshops as I can between the hours of 9am and 6...

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AN INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP WEEK ADVENTURE: TWO PEOPLE, THREE DAYS, FOUR COUNTIES, 17 BOOKSHOPS, 28 BOOKS, 471 MILES. Bookshops are magical places. I’m generally a bit of a sceptic, but I really...

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First impressions are a big thing these days, with so many demands on our time and attention that we're often distracted from one shiny thing to the next, whizzing through life and hardly having ...

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Sometimes, the best way to enjoy something is by seeing the joy another person is experiencing. I loved the last stop on day three of my Independent Bookshops Week bookshop crawl , but whatever I...

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The annual autumn Bookshop Day as part of the Books Are My Bag campaign is always going to be particularly special for me, because it's the event that first set me off bookshop crawling. I'd d...

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As I write this, all I can think about is how much I want to drop everything and get back to my book. It's one of those rare reads that is so perfectly what you want and need to be reading at t...

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It's August, which can only mean one thing: The bookshop blog is five. The time has flown, but looking back over those five years (and possibly influenced by my current read*) is a realisation ...

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Bookshopping can be a bit like falling down the rabbit hole. From the outside I'm visiting a shop on a high street, which is a really rather unremarkable experience, but from the inside it leads ...

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When I think back to my encounter with Octavia's Bookshop in Cirencester – visited during my IBW2018 bookshop crawl – my immediate memory is of the joyful buzz of happy children. They were...

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It can't be repeated enough that bookshops are places to have conversations. They're one of the few real-world places where it's acceptable to talk to a stranger without looking like you're up to...

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When it comes to long descriptions of bookshop encounters, this week's isn't going to be near the top of the list. The bookshop was small and my time there brief, but what it lacks in big adventu...

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For this week's blog I'm looking at contrasts and welcomes, and how two very different but related bookshops can be equally appealing, as we visit the two Yellow-Lighted Bookshops in Gloucestersh...

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THIS IS A NOT VERY BRIEF OVERVIEW OF MY ADVENTURES IN BOOKSHOPPING. THERE'S SIMPLY TOO MUCH TO SAY ABOUT EACH BOOKSHOP TO POST IT ALL HERE. I'LL SHARE THE FULL STORY OF EACH BOOKSHOP EXPERIENCE I...

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Okay, so the headline of this post might be ever so slightly misleading, I'm not suggesting you all drop everything and join me in my car, but it would be good if you all joined in with a booksho...

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After a winter that seemed to cancel out most of the spring, with the appearance of the sun we’ve been lucky enough to do a little travelling around the country. For me, more travel means more ...

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Sometime around the age of ten I was given a book. There was nothing unusual about this choice of gift, except that rather than the usual paperback with a brightly coloured cover, this one was a ...

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When it comes to bookshops I'm a bit like a puppy. I see the word 'bookshop' and I get all excitable, race off towards the door and mentally run around the shop trying to enjoy as much of my surr...

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Bookshops are the answer to most of life's problems. From discovering magic, learning to make tiramisu, or even just finding out What Katy Did Next, there's generally a bookseller who'll be more ...

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I'm a bit late in sharing my latest London Bookshop Crawl exploits with you, mainly because the books have been distracting me from blogging, but finally – better late than never – here are t...

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In my years of blogging I've met many amazing bookshops, each of which stands out for having something unique and special that makes me fall in love with it. This week's bookshop wins the prize f...

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I've been very disorganised recently. Which is probably a bit of an understatement, because by disorganised I mean "pretty much useless at regular blogging" and you can translate "recently" as fo...

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There are so many bookshops and so little time, so I tend to only write about each bookshop once. Unless it features in a bookshop crawl or undergoes some kind of transformation since the first v...

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Life's been a bit busy recently, so I've a raft of bookshop visits to share with you and an even bigger pile of books to read, but the news of a newly opened bookshop was too good an opportunity ...

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You've driven for an hour, sat in a plane for 11 more and your body clock is absolutely shot to pieces, so what's the first thing you do upon arriving in your hotel, a little north of the equator...

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**THE BLOG'S GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE A BRIEF PAUSE, COME BACK SOON AND I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT EACH OF THESE BOOKSHOPS AND THE MANY OTHERS I'VE BEEN VISITING** Life's a bit busy for me at the mo...

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