My trip into Leicester on Wednesday meant I was able to visit the city's new independent bookshop, Fox Books.
You will find it in St Martin's Square, which feels a good location for a bookshop. The stock is small but well chosen, and I came away with Catherine Belton's Putin's People. This is currently the subject of a libel action in the London courts, which tends to support her argument.
When I was a teenager, in the old days, in the Seventies, I had a circuit of Leicester bookshops (new, second-hand and remaindered) to follow.
Even in the Nineties, national chains like Dillon's, Ottakar's and Sherrat & Hughes had shops in the city, But the triumph of Waterstone's and Amazon has left it with a single branch of the former.
So I wish Fox Books well.
Other independent bookshops in the county include Quinns Bookshop in Market Harborough and Kibworth Books.
Black Cat Books was up on Silver Arcade. It was lovely to buy there but horrible to sell.
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