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[rich!]

My local indie bookshop does me a discount (partly because I brute-forced him into setting up his business account, long story) so I order all my fiction there.

Business books all come off Ebay.

I'm seeing the bookshop guy this afternoon for "Last F2F Buy Before Lockdown" and I'll ask him about this.

He said "registering myself now, it's still better for the bookshop if you buy direct from them"

 

[nyxx]

News from Nowhere have been doing mail order books throughout this year. If you’re getting it delivered within some L postcodes it comes by cycle rickshaw, otherwise it’s in the regular post.
Well worth supporting them and doesn’t cost extra.

 

[hash tag]

Can anyone recommend anywhere for that impossible to find anywhere else theatrical biography. Apart from everywhere listed above, I tried a few second hand bookshops, amnesty, red cross, Oxfam.....?

 

[chilango]

Can anyone recommend anywhere for that impossible to find anywhere else theatrical biography. Apart from everywhere listed above, I tried a few second hand bookshops, amnesty, red cross, Oxfam.....?

ebay

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Can anyone recommend anywhere for that impossible to find anywhere else theatrical biography. Apart from everywhere listed above, I tried a few second hand bookshops, amnesty, red cross, Oxfam.....?

I vaguely recall Foyle's is supposed to have a good selection of theatrical books.

 

[Roadkill]

Can anyone recommend anywhere for that impossible to find anywhere else theatrical biography. Apart from everywhere listed above, I tried a few second hand bookshops, amnesty, red cross, Oxfam.....?

Bookfinder.com, and see if any independents have it.

 

[hash tag]

Thanks AnnO'Neemus Roadkill chilango .
But no joy. A friend thought they had tracked it down for me a while back. From eBay in Spain. It didn't happen.

 

[chilango]

Thanks AnnO'Neemus Roadkill chilango .
But no joy. A friend thought they had tracked it down for me a while back. From eBay in Spain. It didn't happen.

On eBay it's worth searching for it as a completed or sold item just to see if it's turned up there before or not.

 

[chilango]

Plus you could post the details here and let us lot look for it!

 

[Winot]

Annoyingly, bookshop doesn’t accept book tokens (I’ve got lots because we’re doing the ONS Covid study).

 

[Roadkill]

Annoyingly, bookshop doesn’t accept book tokens (I’ve got lots because we’re doing the ONS Covid study).

Same here, and they seem to be sending me more vouchers than I've had tests. I haven't paid for a book from my own pocket for three months!

I've mainly been buying obscure academic stuff, though, so have been using Foyle's and Blackwell's.

 

[Winot]

Same here, and they seem to be sending me more vouchers than I've had tests. I haven't paid for a book from my own pocket for three months!

I've mainly been buying obscure academic stuff, though, so have been using Foyle's and Blackwell's.

I had an obscure academic delivery from Foyles only yesterday

 

[hash tag]

chilango Wrestler, Writer, Actor. it's like a crusade now! and it does exist, honest.
(I heard him on desert island discs while having my chemo, such a nice and interesting guy, have been trying to find this ever since).
Reward offered to finder!!!

 

[hash tag]

To be going on with, I have just asked Mrs Tag to get me Clive James translation of the Divine Comedy

 

[jannerboyuk]

Annoyingly, bookshop doesn’t accept book tokens (I’ve got lots because we’re doing the ONS Covid study).

They are setting this up, should be working in the next few weeks.

 

[chilango]

chilango Wrestler, Writer, Actor. it's like a crusade now! and it does exist, honest.
(I heard him on desert island discs while having my chemo, such a nice and interesting guy, have been trying to find this ever since).
Reward offered to finder!!!


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Nothing on a first pass. You may have to try "the dark web"

 

[hash tag]

Hey, you'll never believe this Amazon.com and 'Big Five' publishers accused of ebook price-fixing

 

[hash tag]

10 of Britain’s best indie bookshops

We mark Independent Bookshop Week with an expert’s pick of 10 stores embedded in local life, from Edinburgh to Brixton

www.theguardian.com

 

[deeyo]

chilango Wrestler, Writer, Actor. it's like a crusade now! and it does exist, honest.
(I heard him on desert island discs while having my chemo, such a nice and interesting guy, have been trying to find this ever since).
Reward offered to finder!!!


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i think you should contact mr golding.
(he's on twitter & facebook as well.)
i found a cover picture of the book - among others - on his facebook, from 2013 under 'published and soon to be published books'

in a reissue of another of his books, 'life after kes', golding writes of the troubles with the glover biography:
Life After Kes
- seems the widow of mr glover withdrew her support for the book when the original publisher folded.
its mentioned on his imbd page as 'will be launched winter 2020'

Simon Golding - Biography - IMDb

Simon Golding. Producer: The Athena Syndrome. Simon W. Golding is a multi best-selling and award-winning novelist, screenwriter and producer. Simon started writing for national magazines (Reader's Digest, Cosmopolitan, FHM, The Great Outdoors etc.) and radio, including News Huddlines and Week...

m.imdb.com

from what i can tell, this has not happened.

the man himself seems occupied with the coming release of a movie, 'cold sun'

COLD SUN the movie | Cast to date - 2021 | MFC Productions

Casting to date | Tara Reid,Patrick Bergin, Gabriella Wright, Ian Ogilvy, Lesley-Anne Down, Craig Conway, Seeta Indrani, Vicki Michelle MBE, Marc Sinden

mfc-productionsltd.co

maybe the book is just postponed - again?

 

[hash tag]

^^^ Many thanks for this. I am still on the lookout. I did try the author, twice, there was no reply ^^^^^.

 

[yield]

^^^ Many thanks for this. I am still on the lookout. I did try the author, twice, there was no reply ^^^^^.

Was the book ever published?

Amazon think it's GET publishing Brian Glover: Wrestler - Actor - Writer: Amazon.co.uk: Golding, Simon W.: 9780954879358: Books Contact Us - Get Publishing!

Here it's Breedon Brian Glover : Wrestler, Actor, Writer by Golding, Simon W. (9781859836989) | BrownsBfS Breedon Books Publishing Co The Parker Centre, Mansfield Road, Derby, DE21 4SZ, England. Phone: 01332 384235

 

[yield]

New Beacon Books maybe closing.

Dismay as UK’s first specialist black bookshop forced to close

New Beacon Books in north London announces it will close and move online only after more than 55 years Dismay at decision to shut UK’s first specialist black bookshop

www.theguardian.com