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The Buxton Book Fair thief

The Buxton Book Fair at the Pavilion Gardens, now under the management of Jane Millington, has been a monthly feature of the social calendar of the Derbyshire spa town for decades. Featuring a mixture of antiquarian, second hand and out of print . . .

These book descriptions are for reading

They say every picture tells a story. I would second that and add: every book entry should be story-focussed. There is nothing more dispiriting than perusing booksellers' catalogues that are mere agglomerations of facts, culled from Wikipedia or . . .

From oneiromancy to book collecting

Having grown up in a household bereft of books, bar a tome on oneiromancy (a staple manual for Greek rural families in the mid-20th century), my hunger for them was heightened by their relative rarity. Then, in my first year at high-school, a . . .

The all-new MintFirsts website is now online

An aeon ago, MintFirsts launched its first website. That was in 2004, still the Dark Ages in internet chronological terms. We knew almost nothing about the world wide web back then, the tools at our disposal were meagre, yet somehow we managed to . . .