the second hand book review

A return to the Bookshop on the Heath, Blackheath - a real gem of a bookshop in southeast London, which has been there since 1949. I was massively excited by this bookshop when I first spotted it: they had a fabulous display of vintage children’s books in one window (pretty sure the Enid Blytons featured heavily), and an old map of Greenwich in another.

I was even more excited when I saw the shelves and shelves of fiction and non-fiction paperbacks outside, all available as a bargain-tastic multi-buy (I’ll take any excuse to buy three books when one will do).

Inside, it’s quiet and dark - two of my favourite qualities in a second-hand bookshop - and I was distracted from my book-hunting by a couple of boxes of vintage postcards. I bought a lovely one dated 1900: it shows a sepia seaside scene with a practically tidal wave engulfing the promenade at Folkestone.