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Friday, April 27, 2018

Book Towns

Running for 1.5km, Kolkata’s secondhand book market is the largest in the world.
Photograph: Steve Beckett/PR

From Hay-on-Wye in Wales to Ureña in Spain, Fjaerland in Norway to Jimbochu in Japan, around 40 semi-official book towns now exist around the world. Book Towns by Alex Johnson takes readers on an illustrated tour of these dedicated havens of literature.

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