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  • 1891 August Weather

    August, 1891 : A Remarkably Wet Month, With Very Little Sunshine.

    When is a book not a book? When it’s a manuscript! The book fairs have started again and at the very first one I bought a wonderful leather-bound notebook with a record for the weather on every single day between…

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  • Brighton Book Fair In The News

    Brighton Book Fair in The News – Antiques Trade Gazette

    This is just a short post to let you know that the PBFA Brighton Book Fair is in the news! The image shows the full page article from the May 15th Antiques Trade Gazette. The ATG is essential reading for…

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  • PBFA Book Fair

    Follow the PBFA Brighton Book Fair on Facebook!

    I have set up a facebook group for the PBFA Brighton Book Fair. I’ll be posting all sorts of interesting material on the group page as well as the latest news and details about the fair. There has not been…

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  • Brighton In Books

    A Book Fair Comes To Brighton – October 30th, 2021

    Here is some good news! I am very pleased to announce that on Saturday October 30th there will be a PBFA Book Fair in Brighton at the Racecourse. A book fair is like a huge second-hand bookshop coming to town…

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  • Shoreham Bungalow Town

    Shoreham on Sea: Lights! Camera! Glamour!

    The story of Shoreham’s bohemian seaside village is well known but still remarkable. In the 1880s the shingle spit between the River Adur and the sea was used by fishermen, some working from old railway carriages bought from Brighton. One…

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  • Maps old and new – from Sussex to Cambridgefhire

    19th February 2026

    Here’s a very brief post to say that our next book fair is in Cambridge – tomorrow, the 20th February. Last week we were in Tunbridge Wells and I have been so busy I have not had a lot of…

  • Shelf Improvement

    Shelf Improvement: A Talk about Book Collecting.

    4th February 2026

    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…

  • Buying old books in Hove

    Buying Books in Brighton and Hove, Actually…

    20th January 2026

    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…

  • Brighton Aquarium Invitation

    A Request For The Honour Of Your Company…

    24th October 2025

    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…

  • Free Ticket

    Free Tickets For The 2025 Brighton Book Fair

    26th September 2025

    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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