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  • Estra Clark's 1947 map of York.

    The 2025 Book Fairs Begin – I’m On The Road!

    The 2025 P.B.F.A book fairs have begun, and there’s a clue in the map: I’m away at York until the 13th at a huge fair at the racecourse. This lovely pictorial map is by Estra Clarke, by the way, and…

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  • Books I have bought recently.

    Books, maps, ephemera and more needed urgently – can you help?

    The seasons change, but book fair season never seems to end! I have had one practically every weekend since September, including the Brighton fair last Saturday the 26th October. Next week I’m back in London for the ETC Bloomsbury Fair,…

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  • Flyers are also free tickets!

    Free Tickets to the Brighton book fair!

    This is just a short post to let you know the flyers have arrived and soon I’ll be putting them in the shops all around town. Each one is a free ticket and you can also find a free ticket…

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  • Books

    The 2024 Brighton Book Fair is approaching – and I need to buy books!

    Great news for book lovers – the Brighton Book Fair returns to the main hall of Brighton Racecourse on Saturday October 26th. This is our fourth year there and as the manager I’m really looking forward to meeting my fellow…

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  • A selection of books.

    Busy Buying Books

    I have been very busy with book fairs which I’m thoroughly enjoying at the moment. I have three in July so I need new stock now just as much as ever. Please get in touch if you have any old…

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  • The Book of Death! – Starring The Bibliomysteries

    16th July 2018

    Lights! Camera! Action! I was trying to find a way to put some of my bibliomysteries on display and realised that showing them one by one on film would be the best idea – quick, modern, and youth-friendly. Then my…

  • Lucy Mander

    Bablake School, Coventry: A Former Pupil Writes.

    20th April 2018

    Two of us, to be accurate. I turned up at Bablake School one September morn in 1974 along with 119 other 11 year-old boys. Much the same thing had been happening, we were told, since 1344, which didn’t make the…

  • Phonetic Reading in 1860 and 1960

    Fonetik Spelin, Or, Reading is Fnu.

    24th March 2018

    Words fail me. Certainly words like ‘ritten’ and ‘alfabet’. Mangled spellings abound in both of these well-meaning text books published a hundred years apart. The first is a very rare early example of a phonetic alphabet published by Pitman in…

  • An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe

    Europe Then and Now: The Works of Ye Learned, 1704, Vs. The Work of The Ignorant, 2019

    23rd March 2018

    As you may have read recently the European Union are planning to restrict the import and export of any cultural artefact manufactured over 250 years ago. It includes art, maps, prints, ornaments, furniture, jewellery and of course that most ‘umble…

  • The Yellow Brick Road To Driving Success

    How To Pass The Driving Test; Or, Look out for that octopus!

    23rd March 2018

    It’s two years since I passed the Driving Test, which would be cool if I were 20 years old. As I’m considerably older than that it’s deeply unimpressive – but I’ve got an excuse. It was all those lessons, see….

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