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Bookshops of London

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Londoners certainly appreciate their bookstores.  I have a number of favorites which I always try to visit when I can.  Daunt Books is in Marylebone, a fancy London neighborhood.  When you go in, it is like entering a church.  Doesn't the light from that back window set off the shelves of books?

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My number one favorite bookstore experience may be Foyles.  When I enter I literally hear angels singing.

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All the bookstores we went to were heavily promoting Margaret Atwood's latest book "The Testaments", the sequel to "A Handmaid's Tale". 

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Just look at this special edition of Jane Eyre.  

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Next up was Waterstones, which was really into The Handmaid's Tale.  It gives me an idea for an easy Halloween costume…

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This amazing shop, Hatchards, has been in business since the late 1700s.

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We have been taking the Underground everywhere and were discussing between ourselves how interesting it would be to find a book about its history and creation.  What do you know?  Hatchards had one.  It must weigh ten pounds though, so it will not be coming home with me.

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If I lived in London, I do not think I would have a dull moment.

33 responses to “Bookshops of London”

  4. What bliss! When we lived in Louisville, KY 30 years ago, I could have moved in at the Hawley Cooke bookstore and been very happy indeed.
    Hugs!

  5. What bliss! When we lived in Louisville, KY 30 years ago, I could have moved in at the Hawley Cooke bookstore and been very happy indeed.
    Hugs!

  6. What bliss! When we lived in Louisville, KY 30 years ago, I could have moved in at the Hawley Cooke bookstore and been very happy indeed.
    Hugs!

  7. Hummm … what I just posted seems to have disappeared. Whatever …
    You can get the London Underground book from Amazon here for $45 after you get home!
    Hugs!

  8. Hummm … what I just posted seems to have disappeared. Whatever …
    You can get the London Underground book from Amazon here for $45 after you get home!
    Hugs!

  9. Hummm … what I just posted seems to have disappeared. Whatever …
    You can get the London Underground book from Amazon here for $45 after you get home!
    Hugs!