Established 1979
We have recently taken in an interesting collection of science fiction, particularly strong in Jack Vance (see a selection above) and Clifford D. Simak. No time alas to research whether we have all their novels, but if you have been searching for any, please do ask. Also if visiting the shop, as there are many more than we can get onto the shelves, they are in a back room, we can show them to you on request. The collection also contains a number of other authors, Christopher Priest, Roger Zelazny etc.
Down in the depths, some distance along a subterranean roadway lurks the Skoob
basement.
When the new shop opened last year this was set up as a repository for boxes
of books, it has been swollen by subsequent deliveries into an underground
mountain of them.
We have been working to reduce this, feeding books onto the shop shelves,
but we will always have more stock than can be displayed.
March has seen the arrival of new and capacious shelving below,
which has made the Skoob elves very happy.
It means, there will be more books accessible−if we don’t have it immediately
in the shop, it’s worth asking, it may be downstairs.
If you have a specialist area of interest we can’t get into the shop,
this could be made accessible there too, please ask.
The books pictured above shot straight onto the new shelving just as it was being built. An extensive collection of recent politics and political theory, both international and domestic. So good, it received top priority, much is now priced and on the shop shelves.
Long time customers will be aware that we used to have extensive Penguin
sections. More improved shelving at the front of the shop has allowed us to
reinstate a specific section for Penguin fiction and Penguin crime fiction.
It’s not a Penguin ghetto, they are still allowed in the main fiction
and crime fiction sections, but it adds room for quality literature.
At the same time the art, photography and architecture sections have been
given more room to breathe.
Our rather beautiful medical cabinet is now home to a growing collection of audio books. They are little or not played at all. We have a majority of CDs but also a decent number on cassette tape too. Recent acquisitions have been strong on thrillers and crime fiction as well as some non fiction, particularly history.
In the last updating of this page we highlighted an excellent intake of Loeb classics. Whilst these continue to sell to readers of Greek and Latin, we have recently chanced on a further quantity. The section is now positively engorged. As you can see, to the left, the signature green and red volumes have extended into the next bay. This is really a one-off, we are always interested in buying classics, but we don’t have a steady supply of Loebs. Get them while you can.
