Disaster!

Not a book review, but a news flash. Grim tidings, a disaster indeed, or at least a significant blow to the quality of life. The Foyles bookshop in St. Pancras station has CLOSED. (To be replaced by a John Lewis.) 

Late lamented

Where will I buy my serendipitous books now? Here's the roll of honour:

The Traveller's Guide to Medieval England
The Rivers of London
London Under
How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Underground Overground
Expo 58
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
The Circle
Sputnik Sweetheart
Tatiana
Savage Continent
Broken Homes
1984
The Tudors

All bought in Foyles, St. Pancras... The last nine all bought on the same day this year, in what turns out to be my last purchase there (and the point at which it had become so regular, and thus, I suppose, not serendipitous, that I stopped mentioning the fact in the posts). Obviously it wasn't enough to persuade them to keep the shop open.

Shame. Another small setback for civilisation.