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However Many Days Till Christmas...

 I simply refuse to engage in a Christmas countdown.. but I will share the news that we will be open every day till Christmas. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.. every day till Thursday the 25th...Christmas

The usual hours...10 - 4.30pm...though we may hang around longer depending on how busy the day is..

So, come down and grab yourself...or a lucky someone else...a special treat for reading over the New Year!!...

Ha! I Have Returned!

We are still here! so many things going on that I have, yet again, entirely forgotten to do any posts..

Adrian and I made an agreement this morning between cups of fresh coffee and Vogel's toast. He shall start posting on his Flying wheel Blog ..and I shall pay some attention to The Little Red bookshop Blog..

...... stay tuned!  

The Hours...

 Finally I have decided on my Holiday Hours....basically I shall follow the lead of Cupple
(cafe) .so you can come to town, grab a coffee and a treat and a book or two to help while away the holiday hours!!

Christmas Day       Closed

Boxing Day           Closed

Friday 28th            Closed

Saturday 28th        OPEN  10-4ish

Sunday 29th          Closed

Monday 30th         OPEN  10-4ish

Tuesday 31            OPEN  10-4ish

Wednesday 1st     Closed

Thursday 2nd       Closed

Friday 3rd            Closed

Special Opening this Sunday!! 2/6/24

 I have some overdue organising to do at the moment...piles of books to be reconfigurated....so I figure I may as well have the doors open for all you Sunday shoppers and folk visiting this fair town!!

  Hours 10 am till, shall we say? 2.30pm...I shall commit to that, though I may well be there longer...

Close encounters of the literary kind......

 I am currently reading a random collection of early Horror..it includes many of the lesser known (but still worthy) pieces by the usual suspects, the  Up-All-Night-Got-Bills-to-Pay Authors such as Balzac, Poe, Bierce and includes Thomas Hardy's "The Three Strangers" ..which is a brilliant story, one that would make an excellent Western, but seems to be the predictable go to choice for people overseeing these collections...

....however ..while musing on the difficult career of Hardy I was reminded of this funny anecdote from the research of Claire Tomalin in her Hardy biography, "A Time Torn Man."   

 "Hardy was a young man. He was living in Surbiton, one of the London suburbs near Kingston upon Thames at the time. He had just married Emma Gifford and they moved into a house called St Davids Villa in Hook Road. He was working as an architect for a firm in London and hadn't become famous as a writer.   Hardy was in the Strand and popped into a coffee shop for a cup of tea and a bite to eat. 

Charles Dickens was sitting there. 

He was immediately recognisable to Thomas Hardy as he would have been to anybody. Hardy was about to go over and introduce himself and say hello but Dickens called over a waiter and began arguing about his bill. Dickens was ever concerned about the money. Hardy hesitated and the moment passed. The two greatest novelists of the Victorian period nearly met."

How to use a Secondhand Bookshop.

People who actually buy secondhand books and records, in actual Secondhand Bookstores, with any sort of regularity, want a browsing experience, they want to scour the shelves until something pops out. 

This is what I like to think we provide here at Little Red.  

Of course that doesn't mean you shouldn't ask for that particular book that triggered your shadow crossing our doorway (as long as it's not Orwells "1984"; or "Dune" ..please do not ask me for them ..you won't be the first person that week or even that day...).   

We enjoy helping people find obscure books. I personally love a challenge and will happily hunt around online looking for a title with only the barest of clues...but really that should just be the start of the adventure.  

We are a physical shop, not a list...though I imagine one day we will be only online ..a virtual list floating around the interweb... hmmm...I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that ..it has to be said there are many, many (many) advantages to being online ..but for now, lets just enjoy the chaotic sense of discovery that is an old-fashioned Secondhand Bookstore!!