![]() The Old Religion, to which I sometimes contributed. Went on to produce a long-running newsletter, The Cauldron – Pagan Journal of One of the young editors was Mike Howard, who Here I found a pile ofĪstrology magazines from the Nineteen Seventies with swirly lettering and artĪnd a very new-agey ambience. Staircases, with fascinating stock, and also curios. Wonderfully quaint building, a maze of little rooms and alcoves and twisting The best was Welsh Bridge Books and Collectables, in a Third was an Oxfam bookshop which did not yield very much. Seafaring fantasy Medusa, which is pretty uncommon in the wild. Raven Bookshop in the market hall Mr H obtained a nice copy of E H Visiak’s In an arcade, I found some monographs on the Roman town of Uriconium, and at The Open, a circumstance not always to be relied upon in the trade. ![]() I had made a list of the five second-hand bookshops in the town,Īnd notes on a route on foot taking us between them: all but one were indeed ![]() We met up on theįriday afternoon at Shrewsbury railway station: the town is a sort of fulcrumįor the Welsh Border country, and its historic centre is pleasant to walk We had hired a former estate cottage high up in the hillsĪbove Welshpool, Powys (“the only passers-by are badgers” said the owner), withįar-ranging views and particularly vivid vistas at sunset. John Howard and another old friend, who writes exquisite fantasy tales under In November last year I went on a bookshops weekend with ![]()
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