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The Wycliffe Weekender 14 June 25

Last time, I wrote about an astonishing second-hand bookshop in Eastbourne. This time, let’s talk about regular high street bookshops.

This bookshop doesn’t exist, sadly. It’s what happens if you ask ChatGPT 4 to turn a cathedral into a bookshop with a cafe. But I want to go to there.

They are wonderful, staggering and highly revealing. On the one hand, i…