Bookshop visit 12: Oxfam bookshop, York.

Hello everyone, today I am gifting you with not one, not two but three blog posts. All week long there will be surprises I am gifting as we are in Christmas week! For today's first blog post I am taking you into York city centre where there is an cool Oxfam bookshop that can be found. I liked this bookshop. It was easy to access, though I nearly got a little lost trying to find it. Trying to pick a bookshop in York to visit was a challenge but I am glad I find this one.

When I walked inside there was a member of staff who was very friendly and welcoming. If you go to a book shop, well any shop and there is a member of staff on the till, you do expect they will be welcoming. The other thing that I look out for is the stock they have. Do they have a nice range of books or is minimal? I understand some shops can only handle so many books but to have books from different categories such as fiction, historical books and children books. This shop a lot to choose from and it was a massive shop. I noticed they had some academic books and several books in literature. As York is a city that has colleges and universities this is useful to have. I remember being at university and thinking about the cost if I had bought all my books brand new. Mind you, my university offered a book drop off where you could leave books for other students to have. Take note universities!

I did not end up buying anything because there nothing there that took my fancy. However, this is a handy book shop that offers a bit of something for everyone.


Until next time,


Thomas.

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