Tarnleigh has three bookshops but The Turning Page is by far the most popular. It stocks mostly second-hand books, records and posters. It’s the only bookshop in Britain that’s open 24 hours every day. Its café is always staffed and has several handy couches if you fancy taking a nap. The Turning Page has featured in several national journals. Mostly because the staff tends to do night-shifts in their pyjamas, encouraging customers to do the same.
I’ve added this page to the diary to share my adventures with reading. Books are inner landscapes. Most of the time I feel uncomfortable in them. As if I don’t have right to walk into another’s imagination – even if they’ve made it public. But my reading, and my writing, are so much a part of me that I feel any recorded account of my life, must include a look at my literary habits. The other week the philosopher Caspian Everest came to The Turning Page to give a talk. Here’s a quote.
