Thursday, October 13, 2005

Tell me where to find em and I'm there

Mes Amis

Alan Bennet gave a bit of a speech the other day about how we need to support independent booksellers which is great, fantastic, wonderful and applaudable.

Except its all empty words, I fear.

Because he's already a little late. As I've said earlier, if you're not in the big cities of London, Glasgow or Edinburgh, then where are the independent bookshops? I can think of two or maybe three (all in England) and the rest are second hand bookstores (who also deserve our support). I would dearly support my independent bookstore if one existed here or even in Perth or Cupar (Bell Book and Candle, the most wonderful wee bookshop I ever knew has apparently closed). But the rot set in long before now. We need to turn this around, but Mr Bennet, if we're going to support our local booksellers, we need a local bookseller to support.

Au revoir

Russel

1 comment:

Russel said...

Well I'm glad to be proved wrong - the only one I knew in Cupar was Bell Book and Candle and someone told me that closed down a while back.

So colour me happy.

How come you rate one and Dundee doesn't, though? :-)