A story from some time ago, top and tailed with an update.

…It took me too long to visit Helen Green’s Slightly Bent Bookshop in the country town of Talbot. Thirteen years. Lots of weak excuses for not making good a promise I had made when Helen’s shop of the same name in suburban Williamstown closed on New Year’s Eve 2004. But I finally got there in January 2018. Fortunately, Helen forgave me…

A tale of two bookshops

Thanks once again to Bendigo Writers Festival