A series of incredible pictures show one of the United Kingdom’s largest secondhand bookshops, which houses around 100,000 books inside an 18th-century church. Charles Leakey, 69, opened Leakey’s bookshop in 1979 after falling in love with a secondhand bookshop he worked at in Birmingham. The university graduate who studied history in college was an assistant at the shop. “It was a rare and intoxicating period of my life which I got great pleasure from,” Charles said. “I found it endlessly fascinating to be working in the book shop and see how it all happened.” Charles moved to Scotland in 1976 and started selling books in a small shop. In 1993, the avid reader noticed the church premises in Inverness, Scottish Highlands, was up for sale, and right then he knew it would make for a “fantastic” bookshop. Charles now has 100,000 books ranging from fiction to art and history. The prices …
Incredible Pictures Show UK’s 2nd-Largest Secondhand Bookshop That Has 100,000 Books
April 26, 2021
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