secondhand bookshop diary

The Wrong Man Is Sent to the War: Rereading the Best Novel Ever Written About Newspapers

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The Wrong Man Is Sent to the War: Rereading the Best Novel Ever Written About Newspapers – A quiet afternoon in the shop with Evelyn Waugh’s comedy of Fleet Street, and an awkward look at my own trade

The Civil Servant Who Mocked Ireland Every Morning: A Dubliner’s Column in a London Bookshop

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The Civil Servant Who Mocked Ireland Every Morning: A Dubliner’s Column in a London Bookshop – My Cork mother’s favourite writer, a newspaper column that ran for a quarter of a century and a service for people who wish to look well read