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The Last Word: Lost Horizons

The Last Word: Lost Horizons 223 LOGOS LOGOS 18/4 ©2007 LOGOS My local bookshop called the other day, asking would we pick up a book we had ordered “before closing”. We had just arrived from the United States, so I said we would “stop by tomorrow”. “That will be too late,” came the reply. “We are closing down .” We had been warned that this might happen. But seeing the shuttered shop, with the sign “Shelving for Sale”, was still a shock. Called “Horizons” by Ian and Fiona Fletcher when they opened their doors in 1997, this charming little bookshop — housed in a 17th- century cottage where you had to watch not to bump your head on the beams — had indeed opened up horizons for hundreds of local book lovers. Now Marlow, a town of 35,000 inhabitants, where I have lived for forty-four years, has no bookshop. The Fletchers were not defeated by lack of custom, nor by price-cutting chain stores or supermarkets, nor by Amazon and other Internet booksellers. What drove them away was a drastic increase in their rental, reflecting the unreal property values in Southeast England. If they had renewed their lease, they would have had to trade http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

The Last Word: Lost Horizons

Graham, Gordon
Logos , Volume 18 (4): 223 – Jan 1, 2007
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Brill
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
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10.2959/logo.2007.18.4.223
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223 LOGOS LOGOS 18/4 ©2007 LOGOS My local bookshop called the other day, asking would we pick up a book we had ordered “before closing”. We had just arrived from the United States, so I said we would “stop by tomorrow”. “That will be too late,” came the reply. “We are closing down .” We had been warned that this might happen. But seeing the shuttered shop, with the sign “Shelving for Sale”, was still a shock. Called “Horizons” by Ian and Fiona Fletcher when they opened their doors in 1997, this charming little bookshop — housed in a 17th- century cottage where you had to watch not to bump your head on the beams — had indeed opened up horizons for hundreds of local book lovers. Now Marlow, a town of 35,000 inhabitants, where I have lived for forty-four years, has no bookshop. The Fletchers were not defeated by lack of custom, nor by price-cutting chain stores or supermarkets, nor by Amazon and other Internet booksellers. What drove them away was a drastic increase in their rental, reflecting the unreal property values in Southeast England. If they had renewed their lease, they would have had to trade

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

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