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Monday, 28 April 2008

Brighton Children's Book Festival: the Bookseller's-eye-view

Providing Brighton festival goers with books to buy were the kind people from Bags of Books, the Lewes based children's bookstore (one of a decreasing number of specialist booksellers in the country, I might add). Their stall was located in the corner of a room exhibiting some rather startling photographs.

This was the view from behind the book counter:

6 comments:

  1. Sarah28 April 2008 at 19:35

    What is up with that bedroom scene? :-D

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  2. Angela30 April 2008 at 10:52

    Now there's a tough customer.... I'm trying to imagine if there are any words I could put down on paper (children's genre) that would take his attention away from that photo / video....

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  3. Candy Gourlay30 April 2008 at 11:05

    Customer? That was the bookseller. He and the other people selling books sat there all day opposite that photo They were pretty stoic about it though.

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  4. Paul Romeo30 April 2008 at 19:11

    Is that what happens to you if you become a bookseller of children books?

    Hey oh! Vive la France!

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  5. Paul Romeo30 April 2008 at 19:14

    Gosh, that was a mouthful!
    Why can't I edit my own comments?

    I meant 'children bookseller'... but, hey! bookseller of children books is the long winded way of saying it :) Just in case anyone wondered...

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  6. Candy Gourlay1 May 2008 at 11:08

    bags of books were really good sports about it. it must have been exhausting sitting in front of that photo all day.

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