One crisp Wednesday morning in May, I swam into the Libreria Acqua Alta in Venice. Located in Calle Lunga Santa Maria Formosa, the…
Bookshops we love
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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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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 book stores 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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Here at ten minutes hate we love a good bookshop. John Maguire writes the first in a soon-to-be-series of our favourites. The…