As booksellers, rather than book hunters. Just so you know.
Isn’t it about time you updated your website?
Yes.
Life’s too short for [me to be dealing with] impatient passive aggressiveness
On Thursday, 5 May 2022, 17:24:24 BST, [REDACTED] wrote: Complaint Good evening, I hope you are well ? why didn't you reply to my previous email, did you have the chance to read it? answer me ASAP,Thank you [UNSIGNED] Our response was as below: Good Morning Unsigned Complainant, Answers in order, 1. Yes, well thank … Continue reading Life’s too short for [me to be dealing with] impatient passive aggressiveness
Pin Badges
Look, look! Bright and shiny things. The one I'd like to draw your attention to is the one on the right of the picture. The pound coin is shown for scale. The badges are available to purchase, if we can work out a way to get them to people, at £3 per badge. We'll obviously … Continue reading Pin Badges
Have you tried this approach with Waterstones?
Portrait of the bookseller as [insert your own epithet]
The British-Breton poet Claire Trevien ( https://www.clairetrevien.co.uk/ ) has been asking the Twitterati to submit selfies so that she can experiment with portraiture. Filled with nothing more than a sense of my own self-importance, I sent her the image that you can see on the previous page in this blog (https://wordpress.com/post/wildandhomelessbooks.com/498}. Not having been in … Continue reading Portrait of the bookseller as [insert your own epithet]
“and thus I clothe my naked villainy…”
...as Shakespeare has his Richard III declaim. The quotation in full is: "And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ,And seem a saint, when most I play the devil." Which, it must be said, is probably not the sort of thing I ought to be putting into a … Continue reading “and thus I clothe my naked villainy…”
Ampersands, et cetera
You really can't beat a good ampersand. Or a bad one for that matter. As with many endangered species they're protected by law. They no longer flourish in their native habitats, and web page addresses and online forms appear to have barred their use. "Your password must contain a mixture of upper and lower case … Continue reading Ampersands, et cetera
Not that new, but not that normal
By about lunchtime last Thursday, I was beginning to realise that not much had really changed. The first day of the cricket season had been punctuated by rain delays, and England had then staggered to 87-5, having won the toss and chosen both to bat and also to leave our arguably most effective bowler in … Continue reading Not that new, but not that normal
Tom Gauld – The Snooty Bookshop
Ahoy there Guardianistas! Some kind soul flogged me a copy of Tom Gauld's excellent postcard book "The Snooty Bookshop", which I didn't properly check, and which I now find is several postcards short. Caveat Emptor! (Oh, the irony). Anyway, we've now got about 48 lovely Tom Gauld postcards which have been filleted from the book. … Continue reading Tom Gauld – The Snooty Bookshop
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