Category: bookshop

Book Review: ‘The Confessions of a Bookseller,’ A Year in the Life of a Scottish Bookseller

I have a propensity for acquiring books. My small, upstairs office has shelves full of them. I have a friend who runs a small bookstore in Warrenton, Virginia. Originally from Portland, Oregon, I find my memories are keen of Powell’s, a legendary independent bookstore touted as the world’s largest. I like everything about books, and…


Meet the Characters in the Charming Small Town of Homewood, Alabama

The two places could not be farther apart in every regard. One real, the other a television show set. San Francisco is modern, hip, diverse, and unique. Mayberry is old-fashioned and homey, filled with regular folks doing everyday things. Yet there is a city in Alabama that brings those two places close – Homewood. The…


Incredible Pictures Show UK’s 2nd-Largest Secondhand Bookshop That Has 100,000 Books

A series of incredible pictures show one of the United Kingdom’s largest secondhand bookshops, which houses around 100,000 books inside an 18th-century church. Charles Leakey, 69, opened Leakey’s bookshop in 1979 after falling in love with a secondhand bookshop he worked at in Birmingham. The university graduate who studied history in college was an assistant…