Shakespeare and Co: The world’s most famous bookshop at 100 bbc.com/culture/story/… via BBC Culture

'What a wonderful surprise' + 12 other recent bookshop reviews bit.ly/2ssxHSZ

Secret guide to London prostitutes sells for 13 times estimate mol.im/a/7786009 via This is Money

£50 bags collector rare blocks used to print first edition of Alice In Wonderland metro.news/50-bags-collec…

Rare piece of LGBTQ history turns up on Google washingtonblade.com/2020/01/06/rar… via Washington Blade

Library conservation: the art of saving antiquarian books ft.com/content/f88a56… via Financial Times

JPs Box of Books in Runcorn Shopping City is a recently opened shop that has 'a large selection of secondhand and antiquarian books ... all at very competitive prices.' bit.ly/2slkNq7

Local bookshop 'overwhelmed' with orders after viral post mol.im/a/7890697 via Fake Email

Archivist and bookseller plead guilty to pilfering $8M in rare texts from Carnegie Library washingtonpost.com/history/2020/0…

Medieval guide for hermits could be sold abroad if UK buyer not found standard.co.uk/news/uk/mediev…

'This shop is definitely not for the faint-hearted' + 14 other recent bookshop reviews bit.ly/2tuGKn5

Dutch art detective 'beats Iranian secret service' to recover stolen ancient Persian poems in London telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/1… via Telegraph Breaking News

BBC News - The 200-year-old diary that's rewriting gay history bbc.co.uk/news/education…

After 19 years TheBookGuide is calling it a day and will cease publication on March 31st bit.ly/2Tn1c2e

Important - Jon Morgan has set up a FaceBook Page to try and keep the Bookshop Guide alive. He deserves your support. facebook.com/The-Book-Guide…

PBFA - Edinburgh Book Fair on 20-21 March and UK Fine Press Book Fair on 28-29 March are cancelled due to Coronavirus inprint.co.uk/thebookguide/f…

Churchdown Book Fair on March 4 cancelled due to Coronavirus inprint.co.uk/thebookguide/f…

Our analogue predecessors. Bookshop listings 1951-2011

Glad to report that, post-lockdowns, there are still a few secondhand bookshops left in the UK. thebookguide.info/bookshops/map.…

Reading corner. And my London books