Fifty Pence, Three Previous Owners: A Field Guide to the Charity Shop Book Shelf
Every British charity shop has one: the book corner, shelved by nobody in particular, smelling faintly of someone else's airing cupboard. Here's a lovingly unscientific guide to what lives there — the inscriptions, the bus-ticket bookmarks, the shelf of celebrity memoirs and the 50p classics quietly waiting their turn.
