Ten Best Secondhand Bookshops in UK
Oooh, nice feature:
Scriveners in Buxton, Derbyshire It packs 30,000 volumes over five floors and to encourage browsing, tea and coffee-making facilities plus cake and a donations box sit next to easy chairs. It specialises in antiquarian and first editions, but you’re just as likely to find that old Penguin for a couple of quid and the children’s section is expansive. There’s a tiny Victorian museum in the old cellar kitchen and an in-house bindery that will restore, rebind or create any book to order. 42 High St, Buxton, Derbyshire Tel: 01298 73100 scrivenersbooks.co.uk
In-house bindery to fix your broken backed books! Genius.
OK, I'm just off to Derbyshire.
The Top Five Sexiest Writers, with the caveat that they are modern ones.
The Top Five Sexiest Writers, with the caveat that they are modern ones.
Missed some obvious ones.
Edna O'Brien is famously babely.
John Irving (on the left, with his taller son) is also a looker and has the wrestler's physique.
He's also turned into a Silver Fox.
I also think Doris Lessing was pretty hot back in the fifties before she settled into her wise crone mode.
Caroline Blackwood was famous as a beauty before she was a writer.
Anne Sexton was very pretty.
Ted Hughes had the rough hewn thing.
Admittedly, my tastes run to the eccentric, but no Neil?
I know!
I would have included Michael Chabon also...maybe Jonathan Lethem.
Yeah, the guy who did that piece really limited himself with five. And I was surprised Hughes wasn't on there, too. He was all broody and angsty, too.
I am currently listening to _The Strain_ whilst commuting and reading _13 bullets_ while at the gym. I should probably not be simultanously indulging in two different varieties of vampire lore...but....
