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Wigtown, August 2024
John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
The Martyr of Solway
A busy second day at The Open Book! I opened from just after 10 and after a quiet start, things really picked up around lunchtime.
A lot of people were visiting the area yesterday and popped in to look for books by local authors. If I didn't have what they were looking for, I sent them down the road to The Bookshop, The Old Bank Bookshop or Well-Read Books.
I sold books on how to be right, Victorian prophets, nature and freelancing as a journalist (I wonder who bought that one...) before breaking for a late lunch at Café Rendezvous. The salad was 10/10.
After lunch, I took a trip to Well-Read books (my neighbour!) and marvelled at their crime selection, as well as Number 11 is Wigtown Festival Company's book and gift shop.
Customers: 20
Takings: £31.85
Outgoings: 5 books, apple and caramel cake
Currently reading: Preloved by Lauren Bravo (finished last night,) The Glass Cliff by Sophie Williams
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21.07.22 // The Bookshop, Wigtown, Scotland
I understand that bookshops tend to have a lot of books in them, but there are so many books in this shop.
The Bookshop Band play a version of their song "A Shop With Books In", to support Books Are My Bag, supporting bookshops all over the UK and Ireland. LYRICST...
In a Shop with Books In.....
Lovely just!
Today is the first day of the walk that the rain is so heavy and relentless. To have any chance of being seen on the road, I wear a hi-viz vest with a head torch switched on, even during daylight. By lunchtime, I’m soaked to the skin (warm and damp being the best I hope for in such situations) and in need of some shelter. I always love a second-hand bookshop so to arrive in Wigtown, which contains the largest bookshop in Scotland, seems heaven-sent in the circumstances. A couple of hours later I leave Wigtown charmed, inspired and full of pancakes, the perfect combination to sustain me for five more hours of walking through the deluge.
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