AKA *The* Charing Cross Road Bookshop. Selling anticipation, rare, secondhand, used books, 7 days a week, & online. 2 floors, 5 rooms of books to explore.
Joined March 2012
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26 Mar 2024
“Gripped by the tendrils of rising crime, London citizens stay inside. The streets are quiet.”
um... Come to Charing Cross Road on a Saturday.
all they have left is spreading fear and hate.
also: what is with the cheap AI Batman VoiceOver?
25 Mar 2024
FACT: London under Labour has become a crime capital of the world 🥀
Community note
London is ranked as the 14th safest city in the world. The mayor, didn’t ‘sieze power’, he was elected by London residents twice and is odds on to be re-elected in May.
ULEZ, introduced by Boris Johnson, is enforced by cameras, there are no masked enforcers dressed in black.
hounslow.gov.uk/info/20053/tra…
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15 Mar 2024
Spring is in the air but we think we may get both Tatlin’s Functional Workers clothes and stove for the bookshop next winter
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9 Mar 2024
Please don’t bring your dead fish on ice into the bookshop.
This bookselling malarkey is hard enough without les poissons morts.
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22 Feb 2024
This is why you shouldn’t always declutter.
Also: this GIF aid our mood today.
21 Feb 2024
Director Carl Theodor Dreyer had a friend, Harald Arnesen, who was the director of a mental institution in Norway. In 1928, he sent his friend a copy of his movie The Passion of Joan of Arc
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22 Feb 2024
Incoming email from someone looking for “ original wallets, clothing, hair strands” from Schopenhauer, Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Malthus, Trotsky, Lenin…the list goes on.
Should we tell him that we only just sold Kant’s old leather brogues last week?
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20 Feb 2024
We are recruiting for a Deputy Manager, or a Senior Bookseller, for maternity leave cover ( 1 year fixed term contract).
All the details are on our website
None of the answers are in this book.
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18 Feb 2024
Just confirming that Sir Keir wasn’t referring to our bookshop (as far as we know.)
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26 Jan 2024
Ordered new business ‘cloud voice’ phone from BT, cos the future etc
They’ve assigned it to an email address that isn’t ours so we can’t access voicemail
Please don’t ring us.
Thanks so much for taking our money and our time @bt_uk and giving us less service than before.
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12 Jan 2024
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls
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11 Jan 2024
Ahem.
We are still searching for an experienced bookseller to take on a deputy manager role in our small team when our current lovely Deputy Manager goes on maternity leave.
Please spread the word?…
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6 Jan 2024
Philip Larkin lookalike winner (date uncertain )
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4 Jan 2024
Charing Cross Road looking mighty fine in the rain.
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4 Jan 2024
New visitor to bookshop this morning
“Have you been here a long time ?”
Us: “Since 8.30 but it feels longer”
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31 Dec 2023
You probably should have bought this earlier in 2023. Ah well.
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