We like to share the pleasures of the table with a selection of recipes. Some might be straight from favourite books; others have evolved over time, with our own alterations and embellishments. Just click on the title - we hope you’ll enjoy!
For Bookies
From time to time, our customers share website or blogs or postings or videos that are of more than usual interest for book lovers. If you come across a site that is particularly entertaining or fascinating, we'd love to share it; e-mail us the details by clicking here!
A bookshop blog – offers reviews of bookshops around the UK (and even a review from the world of the interweb thiggie!). Terrific, insightful opinions and a well-designed blog with a geographical index, so you can find bookshops you want to visit!
Harris & Harris Books (in Clare, Suffolk) is run by a former associate who graduated into the real world of bookselling, and is earning kudos from loyal customers who discover what a great bookshop should be when they walk in through her door!
A book sculpture to dream about! (Thanks to Anne Robbins)
A bookseller in a warzone (Thanks to Eric)
Stack 'em high - and weird - The art of book stacking is taken very seriously in Japan
Author Jen Campbell wrote the terrific The Bookshop Book
Caitlin Moran has some excellent observations about Jeff Bezos (hint: They won’t make you want to use Amazon!) (The link will open a PDF document for you to enjoy.)
& more besides
People & Places in the Wider World
Why limit ourselves to East Sussex? Here are some people and places we like and admire!
Re – Found Objects – Memorably, RE took over space at Libertys in London awhile back. We still sigh over the treasures we found there. Fortunately, their website is still offering solutions for challenges you didn't even know you had; we can't even imagine what their shop in Corbridge must be like. Heaven, perhaps.
Firmdale Hotels – London, bastion of civilisation, baffles would-be visitors who seek a friendly welcome and a comfortable room. Be baffled no more; here are hotels, restaurants and bars filled with fabulous art and populated by the nicest staff imaginable! Top tip: The Haymarket Hotel, and Brumus Restaurant on Haymarket Street.
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