19 November 2018
Broadhursts of Southport's part-time staff member Joanne Ball announced on Twitter that she had just sold a book in stock since May 1991. "We always knew its day would come," she wrote of the Pitkin children's biography of William the Conqueror - unaware that her announcement would be retweeted almost 150,000 times as book-lovers worldwide rejoiced in the book finally finding a home.