My book haunts

Pauline Entwistle

@paulinereads57

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Every retired librarian needs somewhere to spend her pension, and these are mine; a fair spread of grand reading rooms, musty shelves and the sort of shop where they know your name before they know your order. I've included the trusty Chorlton Bookshop, obviously, because what's a Beech Road morning without a detour past it; but I do like to wander further afield when the mood (and the 86 bus) takes me. Bring a bag, there's always room for one more.

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My book haunts — 4 items
Name	Address	City	Specialism	My take
1Chorlton Bookshop	506 Wilbraham Road	Manchester	General fiction, non-fiction and children's books	My local, and I'll hear no word against it; they held the fort when a bar nearly saw them off and I'm forever grateful they did
2John Rylands Library	150 Deansgate	Manchester	Rare books, manuscripts and special collections	A proper cathedral of a place; I go for the hush as much as the books, and the hush there is extraordinary
3Manchester Central Library	St Peter's Square	Manchester	Lending library, archives and local history collections	Old loyalties die hard; forty-odd years stamping dates on tickets in a building this lovely spoils a person for anywhere else
4The Portico Library	57 Mosley Street	Manchester	19th-century subscription library and gallery	Easy to walk straight past the door, which rather adds to the charm once you've found it and settled into a leather chair