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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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  • The Art of Kissing

    Love, The Books: The Art of Kissing

    2nd February 2017

    Is this a serious study of how artists have depicted the kiss over the centuries? No, it’s a saucy ‘how-to’ about snogging, from long before the internet explained it all with a few billion diverting tutorials. Book collecting embraces all…

  • Cocktails - How to Mix Them

    A Cocktail For Collectors; or The Right Mix.

    1st February 2017

    February! Time to get stuck in again…I started the first version of ‘A New Look At Old Books’ in January 2009 with this very tome. Eight years on I fancy another round so here it is again, still cool ‘n’…

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