(About 250 pages, but it varies.)
Welcome to the leaf pile…
We have as many books as can reasonably be squeezed into our little shop. There’s shiny new books (and a couple of battered old books); there’s fiction and fact, pictures and poetry, space and speculation, romance and religion, fantasy and farce, murder and magic, drama and disaster.
If you can’t find what you were looking for, relax, get yourself a piece of cake (from somewhere else, we don’t have space for cake) and come back later. If there’s nothing around here which looks interesting, turn the page.
How we built a bookshop and where it got us
Found a safe spot, in the shadow of the Tolbooth’s tower
Checked the insides for miscreants and worm holes
Stuck a few shelves to the walls
Then the difficult part: choosing which books not to stock
We decided to do the whole thing all over again in a bigger space: Number 30 High Street. Bigger, better, bookier. Door opened Jan 2025, until…