“ Great bookshops are the heart of every literary culture, the chambers where life-giving material is exchanged and where writers and readers deposit and find their secrets… . The greatest bookshops set up a trade in books and passions, in the interplay of inquiring minds and the search for values. And so, the best bookshops in the world become centres of a way of life … because there is so little else around now that is like them. Independence is their creed but also their character: they seek to know what they are selling and to sell it with feeling.
Andrew O’Hagan describing “the perfect bookshop” in the Guardian
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