Ep 40: We Only Went In For One Book - Our Love of Browsing and Bookshops (London/South East Edition)
Curious ReadersShow Notes
How many times have Amanda and Joseph joined the ‘Just One Book’ Deception Society? Too many to count. This week they are talking about the joy of browsing and the bookshops they love visiting across the UK. Plus, as always they’ll be chatting about what they’ve been reading recently and the titles they're hoping to pick up next.
Recent Reads I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Service by John Tottenham
Bookshops and browsing Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal The Book of Lost Tales (Volume 2) by J R R Tolkien Persephone Books, Bath and London @persephonebooks If The Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon Charco Press @charcopress Daunt Books, Marleybone or Cheapside @dauntbookspub Bookmongers, Brixton @bookmongersbrixton Harbour Books, Whitstable @harbourbooks A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam In The Distance by Hernan Diaz London Review of Books Bookshop, London @londonreviewofbooks Judd Books, London @juddbooks Book Bar, London @bookbaruk Hatchards, St Pancras @hatchstpancras Brick Lane Bookshop, London @bricklanebookshop Pages of Hackney, London @pagesofhackney The Margate Bookshop, Margate @themargatebookshop Little Green Bookshop, Herne Bay @thegreenbookshop Michael’s Bookshop, Ramsgate @michaelsbookshopramsgate Plunder Books, Ramsgate @plunderbooks Heffers, Cambridge @heffers_cambridge Body in the Bookshop, Cambridge @bodiesinthebookshop Murder and Mayhem, Hay on Wye @murder_and_mayhem Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay on Wye @richardboothsbookshop
What We’re Reading Next The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockton The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
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