Matt Haig

But, you know, so it'd be... The original idea was free coffee, but then I looked into that and it's not going to be free coffee.

It's going to be very expensive.

Oh, yeah.

No, that's going to be our selling point.

Really overpriced coffee.

It's why people think Boots is better than Superdrug.

A little bit.

I mean, like John Steinbeck was a writer that I was bored to death of at school.

But then I reread The Grapes of Wrath and that is such a book for now because it's about what happens to an economy when technology takes over and how a human is lost and it's a migration story.

It was written in 1962, but the dog's still around.

Yeah, and yeah, he was quite radical as well.

Yes, he did East of Eden, like socialist fiction.

But he's just, because he's been in the curriculum here and in America for so long, he's so sort of like,

I slightly worry about sort of like the modern internet side of book culture and the star rating kind of culture where everything becomes average.

You know, it's what the average consensus is of a book.

I think that's dangerous.

I mean, the amount of books I really like are like 3.3 on Google.

No.

Yeah, I've seen this.

Yeah, a TikTok thing.