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Hi, I'm Tom Rowley, a journalist-turned-bookseller. I've worked for The Economist, The Washington Post and The Daily Telegraph.

But I've always spent most of my time (and my money!) in bookshops. They’re havens on the high street, reassuring yet impossibly exciting. In my lowest moments, I’ve found comfort in a bookshop and escape in a paperback thriller.

So now I'm following my lifelong dream and I've started my own.

Tom

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