All I can think of are zone 2 or 2/3, which might not help! But but there's Round Table Books in Brixton and Moon Lane Books in Herne Hill for a lovely south london duo, or Discover Story Centre in Stratford has an excellent children's bookshop focused on younger kids in the east.

It was very peaceful, at home, managed by a wonderful end of life specialist vet. She had a great time while she was here (sometimes at my expense) and I will miss her terribly.

the american one is so singalongable too! It's got that "everyone could be on a different line and it would still sound vaguely together" quality that all good crowd songs have

I'm not emotionally ready for snow D:

Short stories are SUCH a good way to suddenly have 200 favourite authors. And there's so much different out there in that space too, of which only a thin, relatively homogeneous slice is hitting award ballots

It's ok, I'm arriving at it independently 😅

Here's 10 I should read before turning into a pumpkin

oh no. oh no.