Via
comes the news that the BBC shop in Belfast, along with the BBC shops in Norwich, Tunbridge Wells, Kingston-upon-Thames and three in London (but not those in Brighton, Leicester, Birmingham, Eastbourne and Liverpool), is to close by end of next month. Bah.
Bah. I am still mourning New Worlds in London (March 2005) and the ABC bookshop in Leuven (December 2005).
This is another manifestation of the power of the internet, as demonstrated to me a few days ago in Vienna.
Several others are in my to-read piles. A couple used to be on the to-read piles and were later culled.