Rogue Strands

Dear Oxfam Bookshop Customer, I doubt I’ll ever know your name or face, but I do know that you visited the Oxfam Bookshop in Chichester at s...

Dear Camilla, Fingers crossed this letter finds you in good health and still enjoying poetry! I’m afraid I can’t quite remember your face fr...

I regularly browse the shelves of the poetry section at my local secondhand bookshop in Chichester whenever I’m back in the city, so any ne...

I've written about the lives of secondhand books on several occasions on Rogue Strands. They never cease to bring surprises. The lates...

I love the idea of the different lives that are led by books. Just we gain fresh perspectives from them, so our treatment of them casts fres...

There's an excellent article by Wayne Gooderman up at the Guardian Books Blog at the moment, titled "The secret stories of book ins...