Ep 40: We Only Went In For One Book - Our Love of Browsing and Bookshops (London/South East Edition)

How many times have Amanda and Joseph joined the ‘Just One Book’ Deception Society? Too many to count. This week they are talking about the joy of browsing and the bookshops they love visiting across the UK. Plus, as always they’ll be chatting about what they’ve been reading recently and the titles they're hoping to pick up next.

Recent Reads

I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder

Service by John Tottenham

Bookshops and browsing

Sweet Valley High series by Francine Pascal

The Book of Lost Tales (Volume 2) by J R R Tolkien

Persephone Books, Bath and London @persephonebooks

If The Boot Fits by Rebekah Weatherspoon

Charco Press @charcopress

Daunt Books, Marleybone or Cheapside @dauntbookspub

Bookmongers, Brixton @bookmongersbrixton

Harbour Books, Whitstable @harbourbooks

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

In The Distance by Hernan Diaz

London Review of Books Bookshop, London @londonreviewofbooks

Judd Books, London @juddbooks

Book Bar, London @bookbaruk

Hatchards, St Pancras @hatchstpancras

Brick Lane Bookshop, London @bricklanebookshop

Pages of Hackney, London @pagesofhackney

The Margate Bookshop, Margate @themargatebookshop

Little Green Bookshop, Herne Bay @thegreenbookshop

Michael’s Bookshop, Ramsgate @michaelsbookshopramsgate

Plunder Books, Ramsgate @plunderbooks

Heffers, Cambridge @heffers_cambridge

Body in the Bookshop, Cambridge @bodiesinthebookshop

Murder and Mayhem, Hay on Wye @murder_and_mayhem

Richard Booth’s Bookshop, Hay on Wye @richardboothsbookshop

What We’re Reading Next

The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockton

The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova

Also mentioned

Curious Readers is mixed by the incredibly talented James Whiting @fishislandstudio

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