Showing posts with label Bookshops. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bookshops. Show all posts
Saturday, June 27, 2026

HMO plan for Market Harborough's Bottom Club

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Stop sniggering at this story from HFM News  there. I shall explain.   Market Harborough used to have two working men's clubs in the tow...
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Wednesday, June 03, 2026

Why non-fiction books need their indexes

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I'm coming across increasing numbers of new non-fiction books that lack an index. No doubt it's done to save costs, but I wonder if ...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026

A review of Terry O'Neill's life story in a social work journal

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Twenty years ago, every branch of Waterstones had a section called "Painful Lives" that carried memoirs of abuse in childhood. The...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Flann O'Brien makes the case for banning poetry

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Today I visited Heyford Books in Northampton, which maintains a good general secondhand stock and sells most volumes for £2. One of the boo...
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Saturday, September 13, 2025

My first night in Shropshire was at a farm with a very Welsh name

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I've long believed that the first night I spent in Shropshire was at the Sun Inn, Clun, in 1987. Reader (suspiciously) : This isn't ...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Bishop's Castle: The Poetry Pharmacy and a shuttered Three Tuns

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I went back to Bishop's Castle last Friday, when all the shops were open. The most important recent addition to the town is the Poetry P...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Malcolm Saville visits Shrewsbury in 1963

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Malcolm Saville was a Sussex man, but his most popular books were those set in the Shropshire hills. This advertisement from the Wellington ...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Blakey off of On the Buses and radical theatre

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In Kibworth the other day, I visited Daker Books and bought a second-hand copy of John Russell Taylor's Anger and After, a book about t...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

The Joy of Six 1285

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"When I retired from professional chess in 2005, I channeled all of my energy into preventing Russia from sliding back into the hands o...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Two ghost signs from the back streets of Northampton

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It was a nice sunny day so I headed for the back streets of Northampton.  Discoveries included The Old Grocery Espresso Bar (have the sausa...
Sunday, September 08, 2024

The Joy of Six 1266

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Peter Apps untangles the chain of cover-ups that led to the Grenfell Tower fire: "The report traces a long and unpleasant history of t...
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The Joy of Six 1253

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Tom Forth  examines the prospects for HS2 now: "Building a new railway from Birmingham to not-quite-London at Old Oak Common would be r...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Rigby Graham at the Goldmark gallery in Uppingham

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The obituary for Rigby Graham quoted at the beginning of this video describes him as an "irascible painter whose idiosyncratic landscap...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

After Bath by Vaughan Wilkins: Shades of Bertolt Brecht and Anthony Burgess

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Back in the Eighties there was a big house in the village of Marston Trussell, some three miles from here, that used to open as a second-han...
Friday, December 08, 2023

The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb

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The Night of the Hunter, Charles's Laughton's only film as a director, is a masterpiece. But it's wonderful Southern Gothic atmo...
Monday, November 13, 2023

The Rutland Bookshop in Uppingham is about to reopen

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Good news from Uppingham, where the Rutland Bookshop is about to reopen. A note on the shop's Facebook page says: I am very pleased to ...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

New role for Brian Paddick - and a note on his family history

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[ Later . In fact Brian has been appointed as a non-executive director of the Met. The official press release is online.] Lib Dem Voice re...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

A new edition of Nikolaus Pevsner's The Leaves of Southwell

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The excellent Five Leaves Books of Nottingham - you'll find their shop in an alley near the Council House - have brought out a new edit...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

The lost bookshops of Uppingham

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I visited Uppingham - Rutland's second city - on Thursday. When I came to file away the photos I had taken, I was surprised to find I wa...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Film of York in the 1970s

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Gentle footage of the city as it was when I started at the university there in 1978. I remember in particular two long-vanished bookshops: G...