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Christmas is here! Gifts, jewellery, Cards, Bibles and Kids Bible Books!
Nativity Sets now in stock! Bibles, Theology, Spirituality, Ministry, General Christian Life Etc
Church Supplies! Candles, Wafers, Church Stationary, Incense, Christian Music, Cards, Gifts etc.
Here are a few pictures of us for those who follow along on the blog but can't get in for whatever reason - as you will see we are a real bookshop for all we are open sided and open minded enough to be in a market hall.
Also you will note the picture of the Christian bit prove we have now moved into the pre-christmas season with lots of nativities and such now in stock - I challenge anyone out there who has recently been at meetings and have never been to see us to say we are not a real bookshop! Assuming makes... well we all know the adage! Come by and visit us and don't make assumptions based on the word Market - Marks & Spencers Started in a market! Starbucks started in a market and so did lots more! The market is fully enclosed and filled with specialist stalls as well as the mundane! A Science-fiction and Movie Memorabilia collectible specialist is the market! The Stamp Man for rare & collectible Stamps, Coins, Postcards and other such rare, treasured & exclusive finds is in the market! Artist Supplies & bespoke framing is in the market - Wendy the artist on artist supplies is a professional artist who is regularly commissioned for cover art and private work! She paints in the market and does art tuition in the market! Then of course there is us - not just a bookstall but a niche market book specialist - we import US fiction on a weekly basis covering Crime, Thrillers, Romance, Science-Fiction, LGBT and other markets - we are one of the few in the greater county and further afield that does so! We deal in specialist markets such as transport and military history - DVD's, Books & more! and of course there is my personal joy - our religious, christian & Church Supplies unit! Committed to serving Lincoln & Lincolnshire churches and faith communities, because no city should be without a Christian bookshop and resource centre.
Of course lets not forget Al's Arts & Crafty Bits also in the market and part of us - one of lincolnshires best papercraft suppliers for the last 5 years now!
Market is just a word, no one scoffs at going to the Supermarket but yet going to a Market Hall denotes something less worthy, something to be scorned and lessened - well put aside your preconceived notions and come visit Lincoln Central Market - you will be surprised at just how many upmarket (see there's that word again!) types pass through it and how many select customers it reaches out too - we have in the years I have now been here happily and repeatedly served on a weekly and monthly basis Judges, Bishops, MP's, Councillors, Doctors, Actors and just everything else on down. There's no shame in being in a market or visiting a market - the only shame is that some think there is and that's no shame on us, its just ashame that some can't work past a bias.
Ok rant over pictures following - enjoy and see you in the bookshop in the market tomorrow!
The Main Bookshop Pictures!
Science-Fiction, Horror, Military & Historical Fiction!
Large Print Books & Secondhand Crime & Thrillers Section
Our newest Niche Market -The LGBT Section - Small but growing!
The kids love to play in Pegasus Books! - Our Childrens section - almost impossible to keep tidy!
Autobiography, True Crime, and the beginning of Ladies & Saga Secondhand
Puzzles! Classic Literature, Secondhand Science-fiction & Horror
Always look up and not at your feet! Jigsaws, Paint-by-Numbers and lots more are up high!
Al's Arts & Crafty Bits, opposite the religious bit! Decoupage, Stamps etc - a papercraft heaven!
Hello & Welcome in!
Outside for Ladies & General Fiction, Westerns & Romance, The Entrance for Paranormal & Historical Fiction, inside for Pegasus Kids Books, Crime, Thrillers, Science Fiction, LGBT, DVD's, Audio Books, CD's, Jigsaws, Games and Arts, Secondhand Books Sections and lots more - oh and inside and passing through and across the aisle for Al's Arts & Crafty Bits and the Religious & Christian Books and Church Supplies!
Wow - not so little and yes very very real.
5 comments:
As you say Melanie, this is a real bookshop and it's also a real trubute to a professional bookseller - keep up the great work. If George Carey could have a 'Church in the Marketplace' then where better to have a bookshop. You're right there where the people are and long may it continue.
Hey Newshound,
Thanks for the good words - I intend to be here for a while yet doing my best to serve and spread the joy that books and reading are and doing all the outreach I can.
You've just proved that location is not everything. What a selection! What an inspiration!
Likewise: suitably impressed! Having just blogged Leicester's anniversary, I'm sorry I missed yours back in August - but maybe you or the minions would like to write us a report or just some random thoughts & reflections anyway for the SPCK/SSG and UKCBD blogs, please?
Keep up the good work and here's wishing you & the minions a fantastic Christmas!
PS: Where are all the customers????? :)
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