Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

by Oliver Darkshire

I’m running late, for no good reason whatsoever, and I speedwalk down Piccadilly at the velocity to which a gay man in the capital city is accustomed.

A mood

There’s never any question of whether a book is ‘appropriate’ – all books have something to teach us, but the nature of the lesson varies wildly.

Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women.