Horizons Bookshop 80 High Street, Burnham, Bucks SL1 7JT, 01628 662121 Some bookshops have mere readings; Horizons organises literary lunches at a local hotel.
It stocks a lot of fiction by Welsh writers working in English, but, unlike some bookshops, doesn't give it the patronising label "local books".
And, OK, maybe I can be a tad impatient when it comes to some bookshops, but I wish Simon Key and Tim West all the luck I can muster.
But some bookshops have reported a surprise reversal in the trend, with Waterstones boss James Daunt ending Kindle sales after saying ebook revenues had "disappeared to all intents and purposes".
By all accounts some bookshops are still without copies as Gaspereau Press – which prides itself on the quality of its handcrafted copies – races to produce enough stock to meet demand.
The titles, which also include The Ladybird Book of Sheds, The Ladybird Book of The Hipster and The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis, have proved so popular that some bookshops have struggled to get their hands on stock, reported the Bookseller.
Thinking of booking some bookshop-themed pub three trains away just because there's taxidermy on the wall?
But even as he imagined this, standing in some London bookshop where every shelf sagged, sheer panic would take the books and toss them in the air in swarms, like the playing cards at the end of "Alice in Wonderland".
He will have dived into some arty bookshop – I do mean arty; I'm not being coy – or be deep in conversation with some shady bloke in peculiar shoes and retro sunglasses.
There are also some good bookshops along the old Grande Rue, Istiklal Caddesi, which is Istanbul's Oxford Street.
There's a rich literary heritage here and some wonderful bookshops, too – in particular for crime fiction at Sleuth of Baker Street on Millwood Road.
