Charles Bukowski, Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf’s short fiction, a Daniel Johnston book, a quick history guide for graphics, A.A. Milne and a couple of other poetry books – these are the books we have sold randomly. When the tenants upstairs moved away, we recycled some of their old cupboards into a mini bookshelf, fit for the tiny library of titles we have in store.

Is it not a wonder that a city such as ours does not have a decent secondhand bookstore anywhere? Sunny Bookshop or Silverkris do not count! And the names of other shops I forget are the same, all stocking bestseller or easy-to-read titles…

cos sometimes we do not want to buy new books.