Category: Libraries & Bookshops

  • My book buying addiction and a dodgy conscience

    Despite what I have recently written about libraries, and I do indeed believe they are very important, I really use them very little. I’m not quite sure why but I do love to own my books. It is an inconvenient feeling and in many ways it would be better otherwise. And then there is the […]

  • Horses and Harnesses

    The library in the Somerset village where I lived as a teenager was small and square and had once been a shop. It was only open on certain days, including Saturday. This was when I usually visited. Luckily I had quite simple reading needs at the time and these bookshelves supplied me well. Pony books, […]

  • Dear Mr Perks

    The best relationship I have ever had with a library was as a sixth former in Minehead. By the time I was doing English A level I was completely obsessed with reading and with literature. It is probably the only time in my life when I truly read around a subject instead of simply reading […]