Bookshop visit 8: Oxfam Bookshop, Maidstone.

Hello everyone. Today's blog post is going to be my monthly bookshop visit. This month saw me in the county of Kent, in the town of Maidstone. I decided to visit the Oxfam Bookshop in Maidstone. It's a nice bookshop set across two floors. I like the selection they have and how they have laid out the shop. All the fiction books are on the ground floor. For me, if I go in there, I go for the fiction more than anything else. Of course I have been for other stuff aside from fiction. This time I went recently, though I went to have a browse through the fiction section. I was after two specific books each by a different author and various books from another author. When I could not find anything I was after, I concluded that I would go back again some time in the future.

I like it in there and the staff are friendly. One of the books I was after, I had hopes might be in there. I had previously seen the book in another second hand bookshop but I was not prepared to pay £4.50 for the book. As someone who has bought books for a little as £1 or less (if I am lucky), £4.50 is a price I can avoid. I know one day, I will get it cheaper. It is not that important and this is what I would expect to pay in London. I was not in London, or Maidstone I might add. The fiction books in the Oxfam Bookshop of Maidstone were priced at £2.99. Do you think that is fair? Am I being unreasonable about the £4.50 price of the book I wanted, or am I being sensible? Do let me know in the comments what you think...

Now back to the Oxfam Bookshop. It is a nice shop, with a nice offering and nice staff. It is situated in the main town, with local buses that link towns further afield such as Tunbridge Wells, Southborough, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, Tenterden, Snodland, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham, Sittingbourne, Faversham and the city of Canterbury. Maidstone is also served by three train stations: Maidstone West, Maidstone Barracks and Maidstone East. Connections can be made to Paddock Wood, Strood, Ashford International, Bromley South and London. There are plenty of car parks in the town too with some that are not too expensive. Here is a good bookshop, what's not to love? Keep an eye out next month for another bookshop visit, in the mean time enjoy more of my posts.


Until next time,


Thomas.

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