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Friday Essay : Do Readers Dream of Running a Bookshop? Books about Booksellers Are Having a Moment – the Reality Can Be Less Romantic, Rose Michael , single work column

'My mother and I wanted to open a bookshop. We signed up for a CAE course, which was cancelled when the bookseller who ran it went out of business. I learnt this later because I went on to work in a bookshop and the book business is a small world.' (Introduction)   
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