A TEESSIDE bookshop has been included in the latest edition of 'Bookshop Tours of Britain'
Chapter One Loftus has been included in the latest Edition of ‘Bookshop Tours of Britain’ by Louise Boland and published by Fairlight Books.
Based on her touring of bookshops, which she did over the three years since starting Fairlight Books, Louise Boland’s Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide, navigating bookshop to bookshop.
Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of South West England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial heartland, up to the Scottish Highlands and back via Whitby, the Norfolk Broads, central London, the South Downs and Hardy's Wessex.
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On their way, the tours visit beaches, castles, head down coal mines, go to whiskey distilleries, bird watching, hiking, canoeing, to stately homes and the houses of some of Britain's best-loved historic writers - and a host of fantastic bookshops.
Chapter One Loftus, which only opened in November 2020 has been included in ‘North-East of England Tour’ Historic Buildings, Gourmet Delights and Dracula.
Number 13 on the tour, Louise describes Chapter One Loftus as a 'bookshop, which has a carefully curated range of books and gifts'.
The tour also references Loftus’s importance of once being the centre of ironstone mining and known for the nearby burial site of the Anglo-Saxon Princess.
The book also includes a full-page picture of the shop in the snow and a smaller photo of two of the resident bookshop dogs.
Paul Jones-King, owner of Chapter One Loftus said he was 'absolutely delighted to have been included in this wonderful book, it’s fantastic that as a new independent bookshop we have been included alongside some amazing bookshops that have been around for years. It’s also great to see Loftus included as a town, as it’s a great place to shop with some lovely independent shops.'
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