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Black Books

I freakin’ love Black Books. For those not in the know, it’s a sitcom starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, and Tamsin Grieg, who are individually brilliant as well as being an excellent ensemble. Channel 4 has prevented people like me from embedding clips from YouTube, so you’ll have to click on this link to see [...]

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November 23, 2009 by Kirsty in bookshops, places, television
Tagged bill bailey, black books, bookshops, dylan moran, london, london review bookshop, lrb, tamsin grieg, the waves, virginia woolf

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On second-hand bookshops

The Guardian today has a lovely article on what they deem the ten best second-hand bookshops in Britain. Their list is:

Barter Books, Alnwick, Northumberland
The Book Shop, Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway
Scriveners, Buxton, Derbyshire
Bath Old Books, Bath (no website)
The Haunted Bookshop, Cambridge
Any Amount of Books, Charing Cross Road, London
Westwood Books, Sedburgh, Cumbria
Wenlock Books, Much Wenlock, Shropshire
Scarthin Books, [...]

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October 2, 2009 by Kirsty in bookshops, news & media, places
Tagged books, glasgow, oxfam, oxford, second-hand bookshops

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