The 50 best bookshops
From Hackney to Hay-on-Wye, Rhiannon Batten browses the country’s best bookshops and uncovers counterculture classics and coffee-table tomes in friendly outlets with local colour
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Your support makes all the difference.This week’s panel
Boyd Tonkin is literary editor of ‘The Independent’;
Chris Conway is managing director of the Book Partnership, which runs www.localbookshops.co.uk;
Philip Jones is deputy editor of ‘The Bookseller’ ( www.thebookseller.com);
Glenn Patterson is a novelist. His last book was ‘Once Upon a Hill: Love in Troubled Times’ (Bloomsbury, £9.99);
Aurea Carpenter and Rebecca Nicolson are co-founders of Short Books ( www.shortbooks.co.uk)
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