14 November 2016
"Bookselling was and is for me a cultural and political expression, an expression of progressive change, of challenge to oppressive authority, of a search for a community of values which can act as an underpinning of a better world. The true profit in bookselling is the social profit; the bottom line, the measure of the impact of the bookshop on the community." These impassioned words, from late bookseller David Schwartz, adorn a broadside hanging beside my front door-the last thing I see each day as I venture onward from my home.
