This is the best news I’ve read in ages. Lovely email, great recommendations, bring it all on. Look forward to following developments here and spending all my income on books with wine this summer! (Please say it’s going to be Balham!)
Man after my own heart! I think you’re really brave and courageous and think you’ll be a huge success. After all doers just DO! I’ll look forward to following your journey, best of luck!
Lovely email. Read the Catherine Belton a while ago and it explains soooo much now. Loved the other non-fiction recommed. Good luck (though you wont need luck as you have ability) and look forward to finding and visiting when you open en route between NHS Trusts-work travels.
Congratulations and wishing you the best best of luck! I quit my well-paid job at the end of last year to pursue my love of photography - I’ve never been more terrified and happy in my life!
The smell of the newsprint and the roar of the press...Unrivalled joy. But you are so right, too, Tom, about bookshops being a people experience: it's the people behind the counter and the browsers one encounters who make bookshop visits enjoyable and memorable. I've never met a independent owner yet who was lost for words. I'm looking forward already to making your shop a favourite haunt. All the best.
I love this. It's like I wrote it myself. Except better. Look forward to hearing more about your journey and drinking wine (and reading) in your bookshop.
So happy to have found you on Substack and very excited to see how your journey develops! I worked in a bookshop as a teenager and almost all my wages went straight back into the till. Having had a career in magazine publishing, run my own stationery business and now as a positive psychology coach I still dream of having my own bookshop…
Yes!!! I’m with you good sir. I LOVE the smell of books, particularly old classic used books. I also massively dig that you’re quitting your conventional job to run a bookstore. Good on you!
This is the best news I’ve read in ages. Lovely email, great recommendations, bring it all on. Look forward to following developments here and spending all my income on books with wine this summer! (Please say it’s going to be Balham!)
Man after my own heart! I think you’re really brave and courageous and think you’ll be a huge success. After all doers just DO! I’ll look forward to following your journey, best of luck!
I love your passion and I´m so excited for you. I wish you the best, Tom. I really do.
Lovely email. Read the Catherine Belton a while ago and it explains soooo much now. Loved the other non-fiction recommed. Good luck (though you wont need luck as you have ability) and look forward to finding and visiting when you open en route between NHS Trusts-work travels.
Hope to visit your shop once it opens when I’m next in London. Until then, I will follow along for the ride and will be rooting for you from afar!
Congratulations and wishing you the best best of luck! I quit my well-paid job at the end of last year to pursue my love of photography - I’ve never been more terrified and happy in my life!
The smell of the newsprint and the roar of the press...Unrivalled joy. But you are so right, too, Tom, about bookshops being a people experience: it's the people behind the counter and the browsers one encounters who make bookshop visits enjoyable and memorable. I've never met a independent owner yet who was lost for words. I'm looking forward already to making your shop a favourite haunt. All the best.
I will never order a book at Amazon again!
I love this. It's like I wrote it myself. Except better. Look forward to hearing more about your journey and drinking wine (and reading) in your bookshop.
So happy to have found you on Substack and very excited to see how your journey develops! I worked in a bookshop as a teenager and almost all my wages went straight back into the till. Having had a career in magazine publishing, run my own stationery business and now as a positive psychology coach I still dream of having my own bookshop…
Wishing you good luck !!
Yes!!! I’m with you good sir. I LOVE the smell of books, particularly old classic used books. I also massively dig that you’re quitting your conventional job to run a bookstore. Good on you!
Michael Mohr
‘Sincere American Writing’
https://michaelmohr.substack.com/