Waterstones staff : join a union.

“Gripped by the tendrils of rising crime, London citizens stay inside. The streets are quiet.” um... Come to Charing Cross Road on a Saturday. all they have left is spreading fear and hate. also: what is with the cheap AI Batman VoiceOver?

Spring is in the air but we think we may get both Tatlin’s Functional Workers clothes and stove for the bookshop next winter

Be careful out there

Please don’t bring your dead fish on ice into the bookshop. This bookselling malarkey is hard enough without les poissons morts.

Good morning

This is why you shouldn’t always declutter. Also: this GIF aid our mood today.

Incoming email from someone looking for “ original wallets, clothing, hair strands” from Schopenhauer, Marx, Engels, Nietzsche, Malthus, Trotsky, Lenin…the list goes on. Should we tell him that we only just sold Kant’s old leather brogues last week?

We are recruiting for a Deputy Manager, or a Senior Bookseller, for maternity leave cover ( 1 year fixed term contract). All the details are on our website None of the answers are in this book.

Just confirming that Sir Keir wasn’t referring to our bookshop (as far as we know.)

Ordered new business ‘cloud voice’ phone from BT, cos the future etc They’ve assigned it to an email address that isn’t ours so we can’t access voicemail Please don’t ring us. Thanks so much for taking our money and our time @bt_uk and giving us less service than before.

Diving for dear life When we could be diving for pearls

Ahem. We are still searching for an experienced bookseller to take on a deputy manager role in our small team when our current lovely Deputy Manager goes on maternity leave. Please spread the word?…

Philip Larkin lookalike winner (date uncertain )

Charing Cross Road looking mighty fine in the rain.

New visitor to bookshop this morning “Have you been here a long time ?” Us: “Since 8.30 but it feels longer”

If you worked here, you would be here now. anyamountofbooks.com/About_U…

New Year New Job Old Books Great People #Recruiting #bookseller

You probably should have bought this earlier in 2023. Ah well.

Simenon on Sunday