Simenon on Sunday

You probably should have bought this earlier in 2023. Ah well.

New Year New Job Old Books Great People #Recruiting #bookseller

If you worked here, you would be here now. anyamountofbooks.com/About_Us/About…

New visitor to bookshop this morning “Have you been here a long time ?” Us: “Since 8.30 but it feels longer”

Charing Cross Road looking mighty fine in the rain.

Philip Larkin lookalike winner (date uncertain )

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?…

Diving for dear life When we could be diving for pearls

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 and giving us less service than before.

Just confirming that Sir Keir wasn’t referring to our bookshop (as far as we know.)

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.

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?

This is why you shouldn’t always declutter. Also: this GIF aid our mood today.

Good morning

Please don’t bring your dead fish on ice into the bookshop. This bookselling malarkey is hard enough without les poissons morts.

Be careful out there

Spring is in the air but we think we may get both Tatlin’s Functional Workers clothes and stove for the bookshop next winter

“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?

Waterstones staff : join a union.