Matt Haig

I think it's going to be one of those, you know, those...

I always forget its name, but the ice cream place that does the sort of flowers.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, there's a closed down bookshop on that street, which might have been it.

There's a lot of lost bookshops in Brighton.

There used to be one called the Unicorn Bookshop, which closed down in the 1970s.

But in the 1960s, that was like... Well, Brighton being Brighton, it was like the most radical...

bookshop it published like some JG Ballard short stories that wouldn't be published anywhere else because it was just like I can't remember there's a rude one about Ronald Reagan oh I see wow and what will your bookshop be like then not like that no well I don't know like people have the classic idea of like the Shakespeare and Co sort of pile them high books everywhere

But I feel like, I don't know if it's my ADHD or whatever, but I kind of want quite a minimal bookshop where you have books as kind of like facing out.

So you'd have no books with the spines out.

It'd be kind of like a book club.

but as a bookshop.

So you'd have your fiction of the month, children's book of the month, non-fiction of the month.

So it feels really curated.

I also think, like, in the internet age, we don't need a bookshop to have every single book.

Yeah, that's true.

Like, a job of a bookshop is, you know, to look like you really care about them.

Well, it'd be a cafe as well.

Oh, lovely.