The bookshop is not the only anomaly on the block.
Biology is an entropic anomaly on the "long road from order to disorder".
Winslet is not the only anomaly on the gong lists this year.
In an era of quick turnovers that include athletes, coaches and owners, Bob Sutton is an anomaly on the Jets.
Rickie Lambert plays for West Bromwich Albion now, his year at Anfield an anomaly on his CV.
Whether this is an accidental or subconscious anomaly on the part of Waitrose, it is impossible to know.
Dickey is an anomaly on the Mets, whose roster is increasingly filled with rookies and 20-somethings like Davis.
The company's IA7 satellite, which serves the United States, Canada and South America, had a "sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly" on Sunday, the company said.
A neighbor, Robert Krener, who said he sold the Parentes their house 12 years ago, called the deaths "an anomaly on a scale I can't begin to fathom".
(Even in America, something of an anomaly on these matters, religious presidential candidates direct their evangelical huckstering at Smallville, USA and not the sophisticates of the big cities).
And doctors have responded by changing the way they deliver babies, often seeing a relatively minor anomaly on a fetal heart monitor as justification for an immediate Caesarean.
