One crisp Wednesday morning in May, I swam into the Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice. Located in Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa, the …
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Glasgow is simply a marvellous city, marvellous people and marvellous mayhem. On arrival at the majestic train station, you know it’s something special …
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Established May Day 1974, News From Nowhere celebrated forty years in business in 2014. Forty years of supplying the people of Liverpool …
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Open Door Bookshop On a recent trip to Roma, I’d planned to visit an English bookstore to pen a review for this …
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With tales of a worldwide trek that ended in Liverpool, let John Maguire take you on a shortcut to literary treasure at …
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Bookshops
Paramount Books, Manchester: The Vatican of Battered Books
by John Maguireby John MaguireOur favourite bookshops series reaches ‘the Venice of the North’ as John Maguire finds treasure gleaming under the grey Mancunian skies in …
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Remember when the best bit about the days between Christmas and New Year was spending your book tokens? We do. Let John …
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We promised a return to our reviews of favourite bookshops and here is John Maguire, taking a trip across the Pennines to …
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Bookshops
The Bibliophile’s Cathedral: Shakespeare and Company, Paris
by John Maguireby John MaguireHere at ten million hardbacks, we love a good bookshop. John Maguire writes the first in a series about our favourites. The City …