A reader named Michael W Caldon is, like me, driven to distraction by babyvoiced women talking in croaky voices about ‘bucks’ or ‘berks’, rather than books’.
Our torment reached its apogee with Broadcasting House, when Paddy O’Connell celebra ted the boom independent bookshops currently enjoy. Tim O’Kelly, of One Tree Books in Petersfield, a community hub, recommended two books: Medicine by Dr David Jarrett and the novel