The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker Zen Buddhism In hypnotic prose that pulses

In hypnotic prose that pulses with life and longing

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The Bookshop, the Draper, the Candlestick Maker Zen Buddhism In hypnotic prose that pulsesThe modern day cry is that the high street is dying. But are our present concerns so different from those of the past? Historian Annie Gray takes us down the street and through the ages, from medieval marketplaces to the purpose built concrete precincts still standing today. Peeping inside the windows of tailors, tearooms and grocers, we explore everything from the toyshops of yesteryear places where curiosities were sold for adults rather than