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I Need Books For Book Fairs!

It’s one book fair after another at this time of year. In the photo you can (just!) see my stand at Cambridge, which this year was in a new venue. It’s always been popular with younger customers and this year…
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A New Look At Tunbridge Wells 180 years ago.

Here’s a lovely thing which I am going to take to the Tunbridge Wells PBFA Book Fair on Saturday 3rd February. You can find out more about the fair here. It’s just one image from an album of 24 sketches…
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December Sleep; or, My Favourite Book

As I write this we are just a week or so from the winter solstice and the end of another year. And what a busy year it’s been! According to my diary I have visited over 60 houses to buy…
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The Antiquarian Book Club goes to Worthing!

I’m proud to be a member of the country’s largest organisation of professional book sellers, the P.B.F.A. The association was established in 1974 to ‘bring books to the people’ and that’s exactly what we do at book fairs across the…
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2023 Brighton Book Fair: Saturday 28th October, Main Hall, Brighton Racecourse.

The 2023 PBFA Brighton Book Fair is coming up fast. It’s the biggest and best book fair on the south coast and we’re now in our third year. Look out for these flyers around the south – each one is…
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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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