There is no algorithm behind this shop. What is on the table by the door is there because somebody who works here finished it, thought about it for a day or two, and decided you might like it as well.
Two rooms of it, arranged the way a person would arrange it rather than the way a warehouse would. Contemporary at the front, everything older behind, and a shelf near the till for things we cannot stop recommending.
The second-hand stock changes every week and is priced by what it is, not by what a website says it is worth this morning.
Small presses, pamphlets, and the sort of nature writing that is really about people. If we do not have it we will order it, usually for the next morning.
A whole room with a low window seat and no expectation that anyone sits still. Picture books at the front, and a wall of the things that get read four hundred times.
A quiet floor with eight chairs, a kettle that works, and no requirement to buy anything at all.
No membership, no charge, no time limit. Bring your own book if you like — plenty of people do.
Seven o'clock, whoever turns up. We choose the next one together and nobody is quizzed.
For a small group, a launch, or a workshop. Twelve people at a squeeze, eight comfortably.
You are not obliged to buy anything, and nobody will follow you about. If you are after something in particular, ask — we probably know where it is.
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