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The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town

By Lwblog @londonwalks
The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town DC Editor Adam Scott writes…

Monday is ALMOST mute here on The Daily Constitutional. We always launch the week with five London photos, grouped on a theme or neighbourhood.

This week we're pressing our noses against the windows of London's bookshops

Olden Days Amazon - Any Amount Of Books on the Charing Cross Road…


The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town

One from the archive… had to chuckle at this "window display" from Waterstone's in Kensington back in 2010 with the bottle of Spray & Wipe resting next to Tony Blair's book. What was that line about "All the perfumes of Arabia" again?
The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town

Wild & wonderful Cecil Court…
The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town
… the title on the right - The Corpse Wore Pasties – is a murder mystery thriller by neo-burlesque performer Jonny Porkpie.
I wasted a whole Sunday trying to replicate this display in the window of The British Museum bookshop on my bookshelves at home. (Between you and me, I think they're using glue. Cheats.)
The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town

And finally, you can't say fairer than this…


The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town



Adam adds… As an extra today for this our special RELAUNCH post, here's an episode of the London Walks Podcast in which I go shopping for books on the Charing Cross Road…
Come and join me on a tour. You can book for ALL my public, scheduled London Walks Tours in September via our online shop Pay-A-Tour. Click the button below for the full schedule…
Monday #Photoblog… Bookshops London Town





The Monday #Photoblog… The Bookshops of London Town The Monday Photoblog will return next week. In the meantime, if you'd like to share a London photo with us, please do! Perhaps you joined Karen or Adam on a tour and snapped a a great shot. Drop us a line.










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