Independent bookshops are the new churches: revered but empty
Discuss.
Christopher Fowler – Ten Ugly Truths About Books
Covent Garden copyright-free bookshop in the NY Times
Mark Oddie, owner of Dover Bookshop on Earlham Street tells Hayward Cirker, owner of Dover Publications, that an entire bookshop of copyright-free images is a viable business. It has only taken 25 years to be proved wrong.
Slightly Foxed
A completely enchanting bookshop, Slightly Foxed (previously Gloucester Road Bookshop, owned by Graham Greeneās nephew) is an independent bookshop gem. Little square windows, breezy awning and a tiny and unintrusive bell over the door that alerts you to your entrance into a book tardis. Small but perfectly stocked and formed.
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
- Summer Camp: Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
- Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley
- Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
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