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AKA *The* Charing Cross Road Bookshop. Selling anticipation, rare, secondhand, used books, 7 days a week, & online. 2 floors, 5 rooms of books to explore.

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Waterstones staff : join a union.

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@theopenbook2 Ha! How much space have we got? Less spare space than time…

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“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?

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FACT: London under Labour has become a crime capital of the world 🥀

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

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Be careful out there

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

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Good morning

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

[Silent Movie GIFs @silentmoviegifs]

Director Carl Theodor Dreyer had a friend, Harald Arnesen, who was the director of a mental institution in Norway. In 1928, he sent his friend a copy of his movie The Passion of Joan of Arc

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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?

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@LWestwoodAuthor There are no answers, only questions

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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.

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

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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.

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Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls

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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?…

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Philip Larkin lookalike winner (date uncertain )

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Charing Cross Road looking mighty fine in the rain.

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@Hossylass @SmartairUk @SmartAirFilters The SA600 is great.

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