The Booksellers of Camden Lock
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
Publishing:28th Jan '27
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 28th January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Funny and atmospheric, conjures the sultry, seedy charm of Camden in the 1980s' Tessa Hadley
A picaresque 1980s bookshop romance, rife with music and mayhem, by the acclaimed biographer and author of Heatwave.
In the summer of 1982, the year of the Falklands War, Ellen Moore arrives in Camden Town determined to shake off the past. She starts a job at Leviathan Books, where the boss wanders around in Aleister Crowley's old dressing gown and conducts a secret upstairs salon.
Soon she's settled into a rackety new life, living in a local squat with a bunch of post-punks and singing in a synth-pop group with bold ambitions – but will her plans be derailed by a beautiful young junkie, his malevolent older lover and a book with seeming magical properties that's been stolen from her sinister boss at Leviathan?
'The Booksellers of Camden Lock inhabits the magical landscape of a London lost to the Internet Age, when knowledge – about love, music, books, life and everything – was a quest that would send you down twisty alleyways off Kensington Church Street, to anarcho-punk squats in Ladbroke Grove and through the labyrinth of stalls and shops along Camden High Street in search of enlightenment. John Williams casts a fresh enchantment from those Eighties leylines, a fairytale to rival those of his fellow Camden habitues, The Pogues' Cathi Unsworth
'Funny and atmospheric, conjures the sultry seedy charm of Camden in the 1980s' Tessa Hadley
ISBN: 9781835016268
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
224 pages