I was wondering if anyone would mention this. It truly is an amazing part of the history of Anarchism. Try if you can also to get on one of David Rosenberg's walking tours of the radical east end: it's the history of the London Jewish community and the history of the world's communist and anarchist movements tied up into one.

If you like second hand book stores there’s a classic, if small, store that’s been around for ages in Hamstead (which if you’re visiting London for the first time is a great area to visit anyways), called Keith Fawkes.

Also check out the South Bank Book Market, again all second hand and antique books, located outdoors and underneath Waterloo bridge I believe, along the queens walk, which again is already a part of any trip to London for me with or without the books! Have a great trip!

In real life, stories don't end, so our subconscious doesn't really approve. On occasion I've been known to save the last few chapters of something I love just to avoid that sensation of completion. This has the side benefit that when it finally comes time to read those last chapters, I've forgotten enough that I need to re-read back up to that point, whereupon I get to make the same choice again. So far I've always finished the second time, but someday eventually I'll probably go for a round 3.

I do this with tv series too sometimes.

Check out some of the old ones around Charring Cross Road. Never know what you'll find there and they're very old.

Henry Pordes is good.

For fiction: Waterstone's on Gower and Torrington and at Picadilly -- both have great literature sections. Note the store at Picadilly can be chilly so wear a sweater. Foyles is great too. Take some books and head to the top floor to look through them over a coffee and pastry. They have slightly different stock. Also, not yet mentioned is London Review Bookshop on Blury Place right across from The British Museum -- they too often have some odder/interesting works of fiction; small cafe inside.

Checked out The Outside based on this article and it’s not a BAD book, but it it isn’t all there either. The author was more concerned with setting the stage for the series as a whole than writing one good, complete story.

Im currently in a book hangover. Usually rereading a book I’ve enjoyed in the past helps.

Never found another Hitchhikers Guide.

Op, I also didn't pick up on various things as a kid. What I wonder about is what ideas we may have internalized from values from another time period. Interesting topic.

If I'm thinking of the same Persephone Books I think it moved out of London to Bath

Eta: and yes we do call them book shops here

Well, it depends which book...

God I love that store. The cafe in the basement is great as well, lots of people meeting up to talk books or writing.

HA! Totally!

AN ENTIRE STREET WHAAAAAAAT!!
Thank you so much for this!

How common is it in romance novels that the male love interest confessess to the female pov character that he is deeply insecure about feeling unwanted by women?

Instead of immediately searching for the next great thing (because you will always be disappointed), I've started reading short books that I already know that I like that don't require much thinking. I can look forward to it because I enjoy it, and it allows me to reset

I have happy little books that i use for the comedown. Palate cleansers between heavy series

I wouldn't necessarily go out of your way to seek them out, but I'd for sure recommend popping into the book-specific charity shops you'll see dotted around (Oxfam books, British heart Foundation books) as the selection is usually pretty great, as are the prices.

Still recovering from Flowers for Algernon. And I've finished it since last month.

The worst thing, though, is when you can’t find a good engaging story to fill that void.

Waterstones in Gower street and Daunt Books in Marylebone my favourites.

Deap Space series (the game) is the greatest space horror game to be ever made. If you are into gaming definitely should play. Reading a book is good but seeing it in flesh is something else.

The Stars are Legion wasn't a horror book. But oh man, was there a lot of body horror in there. Deeply uncomfortable descriptions, ways people use or share their bodies, locations in the ships they lived on... really stuck with me for years. I really enjoyed that book.

I feel like a generation ship could be a good horror setting. Can't escape, mandatory breeding, could introduce mutations that amplify over the generations, etc. That's what I'd want to read if there was a good on out there.

If you like sci fi/fantasy then the forbidden planet megastore on Shaftesbury avenue is definitely worth a visit, they have a lot of books that are hard to get in other places

Same energy