Twenty five years, six months and two days. This is the length of time it has been since The Last Bookshop has had a customer. The Bakery, a small independent film production company, are filming some scenes right now in my shop. A small boy called Joe, who has never heard of a bookshop, let alone been in one, stumbles across the shop which is, quite literally, the last bookshop in the world. That's about as much as I've managed to glean about the plot but it sounds like an excellent theme for a slightly surreal, futuristic fantasy. It's kind of the ultimate consequence of the internet's effect on the world of books. That's an awfully long time between customers but sometimes I know how the old bookseller in the story feels!...
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