What Makes A Great Bookshop? (opens in new tab)

Rebecca Marks | Culture Dump | 12th May 2026 | UMy favourites in LondonIt is a drizzly afternoon in London. You are mildly hungover and bad-tempered. One of your socks is slipping down inside your boots — which are wet, because you just stepped in a puddle.Cursing, you clean your spectacles on your jumper. The cheap wool only smudges the rainwater around the glass. Blearily, you look up, and find that you have stumbled upon a row of antique bookshops. They are old-fashioned, with hand-painted...