So the book tour I was going to do obvs got covid-cancelled sob and all the lovely talks are replaced by darting into bookshops when they're quiet to sign things.
BUT the positive is that I do actually get to visit bookshops all around the place and fuck me they're lovely. It's the smell. The smell and the tempo. No other act of shopping has the tempo of book shopping.
This is Coles Books in Bicester. Lovely. Gallery bit upstairs selling posters, vinyl, signed editions. coles-books.co.uk
Mostly Books in Abingdon is cute as fuck.
The beautiful @wallingfordbook.
Blackwell's in Holborn. I love it when they put a cafe in a bookshop. You get the smell of coffee and books, which is some kind of next level shit.
Daunts on South End Green. Plus: my first sighting of the book in the retail wild, just chilling on a table in a bookshop, like it was the most natural thing on earth.
Daunts in Belsize Park. This was the first non-food shop I walked into after lockdown and it felt like a transcendent religious experience.
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