Londonist (Free subscription) | yesterday
Our friends at Cecil Court are putting on a splendid-sounding, good old-fashioned Christmas festival this Saturday. Head down to the historic street of bookshops (and more) for all manner of events, including: - Readings by Billy Childish and poet Jeremy Reed and the Ginger Light - Chances to see London's Town Crier , Peter Moore; the amazing Wrumblesnore Snoreyteller with his Wizard...
CLINIC// (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
My favourite book shop on Cecil Court is by far Peter Ellis , they have about five shelves dedicated to first edition poetry books and I love going in and fondling North and South (Bishop). It's beautiful and far too expensive but one day it will be mine. Outside the shop is a little stand for lots of cheap books, and I found a poetry book by W.H. Oliver called Out of Season. I had never...
Tonbridge blog (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
... around the wonderful (and free) National Portrait Gallery, a browse around several bookshops in Cecil Court and Charing Cross Road, only bought one book a signed copy of the new book by Aravind Adiga, author of last years superb booker prize winner, The White Tiger; a sandwich eaten outside Pret a Manger at the top of St. Martin's Lane sitting in the lovely warm unseasonal late autumn...
Geranium Cat's Bookshelf (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
... me think of a book I didn’t acquire. One of my regular visits when I’m in London is to Cecil Court, home of a number of secondhand bookshops, where a couple of years ago I saw a familiar cover in the window of one of them. It was a children’s book by a well-known author and illustrator, and a note on the cover said that it was an unusual copy because it was signed...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Mark Field highlights plight of Cecil Court, where business-rate rises are driving shops 'to the edge' The "dire situation" for the booksellers of London's Cecil Court will be highlighted today by local MP Mark Field as he calls on the government to defer the business rate rises he fears could force them out of business. Cecil Court, a 17th-century...
