Oh what a night! Twitter brings £1,000 worth of orders to empty bookshop | Books | The Guardian

Within a few hours, the fantasy and science fiction author Neil Gaiman retweeted the post to his millions of followers and, as if by magic, orders came flooding in from across the globe. The unlikely turnaround began when the bookshop - which specialises in antiquarian publications, maps and secondhand books - experienced a particularly miserable Tuesday. Robert Sansom, who has worked at the shop for 13 years, hammered out the gloomy tweet.