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  • Shelf Improvement

    Shelf Improvement: A Talk about Book Collecting.

    I have just taken part in a talk titled ‘Shelf Improvement.’ The title says it all: it was aimed at young book collectors who wanted to win a prize for their book collection. It was a joint venture between The…

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  • Buying old books in Hove

    Buying Books in Brighton and Hove, Actually…

    The new year is here and I am already buying old books. My first two house calls were in Hove, very close to home in Brighton. I bought a large and expensive collection of travel books in one house and…

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  • Brighton Aquarium Invitation

    A Request For The Honour Of Your Company…

    This is just a short post to invite you the fifth PBFA Brighton book fair! We’ll be in the main hall up at the Racecourse this Saturday the 25th October. You can get a free ticket at eventbrite, here, or…

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  • Free Ticket

    Free Tickets For The 2025 Brighton Book Fair

    Good news – the Brighton Book Fair is back. The south coast’s biggest and best second-hand book fair will be held in the main hall at Brighton Racecourse on Saturday 25th October. There are links to FREE TICKETS below. But…

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  • PBFA Hay Book Fair 2025

    PBFA Hay-On-Wye Book Fair – Bringing Books to the Book Town.

    Hay-On-Wye is the world’s first ‘book town,’ and a focal point for book lovers from all over the world. It all started in 1962 when Richard Booth realised that an otherwise ordinary town could be rejuvenated if it became a…

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  • Theme of The Crime; or, Murder Goes To School.

    23rd February 2017

    There are approximately 112,000 different crime fiction titles listed on ‘Crime Fiction IV’, edited by Alan J Hubin and known to Book Experts as ‘Hubin’. Many of the stories have a strong background or setting reflected in the titles and…

  • The Daily Mail Cookery Book; or, Add Quip To Taste.

    21st February 2017

    Oh dear. Look what’s on the menu today. Bile, with a soupçon of snide racism. A healthy dash of red-faced outrage to go with your hypocrisy; a double helping of standards, lashings of lashings…Mmmm. Give it all a good stir….

  • Warwici Inhabitatus; or, The Saxton Map Of Warwickshire

    20th February 2017

    Are you on the map? This one of Warwickshire dates from 1607 and my photo shows the traditional centre of England, Meriden, apparently now usurped by a field in Leicestershire. Damn computers. The map was published originally in 1579 by Christopher…

  • Kiss The Book; or, Not a Bibliomystery.

    14th February 2017

    Valentine’s Day! Time to kiss the one we love – in my case, a book. And what a great title for a book lover. I couldn’t wait to read it. A mysterious bible that curs’d the lips that touched it?…

  • Gay Love; or, OZ Magazine Leads The Way

    13th February 2017

    Rip it up and start again? My generation had our hopes and opinions forged in the crucible of punk rock. We thought we invented anti-establishment but unfortunately it turns out a load of hippies got there first. OZ magazine was…

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