28 July 2014
Imagine a place where you can browse through thousands of books, and buy any of them for £1 each; and drink tea and eat cake at the same time.
No, not the internet and your desk, but an actual bricks and mortar (well, steel and breeze block) bookshop just south of Bristol called Bookbarn International. Billing itself as 'England's Largest Used Book Warehouse', it is indeed a veritable house of wares: with shelves and shelves of second-hand books as far as the eye can see. On the day I visited, the shop was busy with flesh-and-blood customers scanning the shelves and eagerly filling pull-along baskets with bargains.