A remarkably well stocked book shop for a small town - mostly if not entirely new books - spread across maybe three floors, in a shop with a deceptively small frontage. There was, for example, a strong art section, offering no less than two versions of the complete letters of Van Gogh, one running to three volumes and one to five.
Quite unclear how such a shop can survive the combined onslaught of Amazon and Waterstone's - perhaps Ely having turned into a dormitory village for nearby Cambridge helps. But, whatever, long may it continue to do so!
PS: having been re-reading 'Goodbye to All That', more or less on an off chance and partly just so as to spend something, having spent time there, bought the first two volumes of the Siegfried Sassoon memoirs, some of which I read as a child. As it turns out, very pleased that I did. More about all that in due course.
Reference 1: http://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/.
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