Mark Staples

Bookseller of Piccadilly

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I’ve been published in a nature writing anthology! Can’t believe I’m in such esteemed company. Am gobsmacked that apart from this April page I also finish the book with the 31st December entry. So so thrilled

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🎶 I know it’s hard to keep an open heart,
When even M&S seems out to harm you 🎶

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@SamDiss Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry. Ticks all the boxes.

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If you fancy a ridiculously funny ghost story this is it from Wodehouse, part of the wonderful Galley Beggar Ghosts series. And what an exquisite first page

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2022 : A (post late shift) Train Odyssey

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The ultimate cosy crime book title doesn’t exi-

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Andddd the shop’s open for Sunday trading

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Spent the day with Clarice, engrossed. What a voice. Finally the collected non-fiction has landed, have been so looking forward to this.
‘It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.’

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Got completely blindsided by a song I’d never heard earlier and had to Shazam it. Fireworks by First Aid Kit. I may as well have been chopping onions in public the tears that came out. Beautiful.
🎵I could have sworn I saw fireworks🎵

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Seventh Heaven!

Cloud Nine!

The number Eight - yeah I mean, sure, at the moment we’re up against it due to the neighbours but we are working on the pedestrianisation of the city centre so…

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@mmdotcox ‘Get to the chopper!’ I just instinctively said out loud. That’ll make sense in roughly an hour or so

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Every night about now a neighbour sings ‘Luna, Luna’ out loud to call their cat back in and it sounds like they’re singing to the moon. It’s wonderful

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@mmdotcox HELLS YES!!!

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@mmdotcox ‘Battererd Wired Sonys’ good name for a band that

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@mmdotcox Call me old fashioned but I kinda like the ritual of untangling and plugging in. Reminds me of my paper round days when I got paid to listen to music. Or something

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Ray Carver:

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And the sky is gray

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Every obituary in The Economist is exceptional, and more often than not the last line just floors me

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Doing a crossword and have just realised the word ‘bloom’ is a shortened version of the word ‘blossom’

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@mmdotcox Not a one?! Jeez watch the first which is ~classic~ then stick with it cos from 4 onwards they get better and better! Mission : Box Set

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@mmdotcox Definitely needed a beer in The Hard Deck afterwards. Phew