>>We mentioned the case of the bookseller in a branch of WH Smith who was asked if there was any Chaucer in stock (April 25). ("I'm sorry", was the reply, "we don't have a crockery department.") But the customer isn't always so very right himself, you know. Rupert Marlow writes from Turnastone in Herefordshire with word of an incident at Hatchards: one day a man, presumably given a shopping list by his wife, walked in and asked for a copy of Night Cream by Elizabeth Arden ...<<

"Public facing." TLS. Times Literary Supplement, June 6th, 2025.

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The Hatchards, book tower Christmas tree at St. Pancras station is beautiful and worth seeing.

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