Just down the road from Tufnell Park tube on Fortess Road you’ll find two “free books” shops. The concept is simple, revolutionary and not a single customer who was there while I was around actually believed it. Every year thousands of good books are pulped simply because there is no […]
Just round the corner from King’s Cross station, technically on the Camden and Islington border but in reality in the nether space that exists around large stations, lies Housmans bookshop. Housmans was founded in 1945 as a mail order book club for pacifists. As the fire of world war […]
Down a small side street in Wood Green there lies a little green bookshop with a big heart. There’s something particularly special about independent bookshops – perhaps it’s that they deal with free ideas both literally and metaphorically, perhaps because that combination of place of learning and independent thought creates […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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