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Wednesday, 29 June 2016

More Smuggling in the Bookshop

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Labels: fiction, George R R Mattin, Gunfounding, Horology, Kent Evacuees, Lee Chils, Manston, Margate Caves, New acquisitions, Ramsgate, Smuggling, Tolkien, Walliams

Tuesday, 28 June 2016

Woodcuts of Kent in the Bookshop

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Labels: fiction, Game of Thrones, George Orwell, Hebrew, Kent in the Fifties, Ladybird, Margate, Miffy, New acquisitions, Steadman, Thanet
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