Having just celebrated 15 years in the town, and with a new bookshop just opened in Stow-on-the Wold, he is delighted that a lot of their customers clearly "get it".
Water reached more than halfway up the windows of The New Bookshop and other stores, and volunteers at Wordsworth House, where the poet spent his early years, rushed to shift furniture and exhibits to higher floors.
The Book Case in Hebden Bridge was destroyed by the Boxing Day floods that hit the north of England, while the New Bookshop in Cockermouth was flooded following Storm Desmond earlier in December.
Mostly Books 36 Stert Street, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 3JP, 01235 525880 Mostly Books made a splash in 2008 by scooping the new bookshop of the year title at the Bookseller industry awards.
Mr Hollis, a poet and editor, focuses on the last five years of Thomas's life before he died in 1917.His book begins in London, where Thomas visits a new bookshop dedicated to poetry that had just opened in "shady Bloomsbury".
The local landlord and longtime St. Marks Place resident Charles Fitzgerald has cooked up a plan to start a new bookshop in the space, which he says would be viable if investors were willing to put up two hundred thousand dollars.
