BOOKWORMS AND VILLAINS

A WALK AROUND THE OLD STOMPING GROUND; ARUNDEL BOOKSHOP HOME OF THE BOOKWORMS A few weeks ago I took a walk around my local town of Arundel before visiting my cousin in the secondhand and antiquarian bookshop I helped to managed for 10 years. I like to pop in and catch up on new stock that has come in; it was always interesting when I ran the shop to discover some fascinating and fun books that people wished to sell, but I manage to curb the temptation to buy more books for myself now! The trouble with working in a secondhand bookshop is your wages can be transformed into books, and there is always the desperate need to snap up items you know don't come along very often. I bought many hundreds, if not thousands, of books for stock over the years that I worked at the bookshop and it was often quite nerve-wracking when rare books were brought in for sale. On one occasion a lady took me out to her car and I rummaged through several battered old boxes. I pulled out wha

BOOK THREE 'BOOKWORM' SERIES 'Christmas at The Secondhand Bookworm' by Emily Jane Bevans I am pleased to be able to make available my third novel based upon my ten years working in and helping to run/manage three secondhand and antiquarian bookshops on the South coast of England. Book three takes place over Christmas and covers one week working in 'The Secondhand Bookworm' in Castletown. I had a lot of fun writing this book. Working in the bookshops over Christmas was always memorable and provided chaos, mayhem, bafflement and entertainment in the world of used and antiquarian book-selling. Snow in 'Arundel' where I worked for 10 years - taken during the events in chapter 5 In 'Christmas at The Secondhand Bookworm' we spend a week in the 'Castletown' bookshop with Nora Jolly leading up to Christmas. Here is my blurb: CHRISTMAS AT THE SECONDHAND BOOKWORM Christmas has arrived and it's a week of mayhem in