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The Poetry Bookshop
Hay-on-Wye |
When the ironing is finished, when all my children have left home, when my novel is complete, when my study is tidy, when all the paper-work is up-to-date, when I have been on a diet, and saved for enough fuel, I'd like to go on tour. To be more precise, I'd like to go on a UK Bookshop Tour ... calling at all the Special and Specialist Bookshops including The Poetry Bookshop, Hay-on-Wye ...
Maybe I could cycle around them all ?... No, not around them, I'd never get anywhere of course, obviously, from one to the next ... raise money for charity along the way ... call in at writing workshops, author readings, borrow library books from one library and return them to another ...
Maybe, when ...
I was in Southwold on the Suffolk coast recently. There was a second hand bookshop which was there for many years, full of classics and thrillers and quirky old music text books. I looked forward to visiting it when I was in the area and treating myself to something interesting.
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What a shame. You should try Hackney, three amazing relatively small bookshops but with carefully chosen stock. See recent blog, Gillian
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