‘We’ve rediscovered the joy of reading’: how customers are rescuing UK bookshops
A vase of hydrangeas sits among a crop of the latest releases, including What Writers Read and Blake Morrison’s Two Sisters. There is a cosy rug and a bright window display. It looks like a lovely bookshop. What there aren’t, however, are any customers. “Winter is killing us, it’s soo quiet,” tweeted Sapphire Bates, the co-owner of Book Bodega in Ramsgate, Kent, on Saturday afternoon. “We need to make £800 by Tuesday to pay our bills.”
Her tweet has since been viewed 6m times and retweeted nearly 12,000 times. She, and the historian and podcaster . Although she is reportedly , Bates thinks the support that has flooded in will cover the bills.
