Introducing Earthbound Books

Last week I was in the small town of Oswestry for half-term. As a family, we spent a fair amount of time in the local bookshop, Booka, mostly in the children’s section. My daughter in particular has inherited the bookworm gene, picked more books than I was prepared to pay for, and ended up buying them with her own pocket money. She will go far.

Booka is a wonderful and welcoming local bookshop, and such things are an endangered species. Back here in Luton, a town of over 200,000 people, ther...