Tag: Daunts

  • Book Talk

    Daunts bookshop in Marylebone is always a joy but to visit in an evening for a talk by an author just adds to the pleasure.  The author was Harriet Walter and she was being interviewed by the historian and biographer Lucy Hughes-Hallett. I often wonder what writers think of their agents and publishers demanding that […]

  • 3 Short Books

    All of these were really impulse buys and 2 of the three were successful so that is pretty good I think. In Daunts beautiful bookshop in Marylebone High Street, where one could go simply to admire the gorgeous Edwardian architecture, they arrange their travel section in a very particular fashion. There is a bookshelf of […]

  • Real books for ever

    I did a little shopping in Daunts in London yesterday. I was about to write ‘a little gentle shopping’ but it really wasn’t gentle because the shop was positively heaving with customers and there were queues to pay. It was a Friday and not a public holiday and there were all these people buying books; […]