Archive for the ‘Other - News & Events’ Category

2
Aug

A billiard table shop which became a bookshop?

   Posted by: lobo   in Other - News & Events

chauncy asked:


Does any reader remember the following story?

About 30 years ago a shop in Melbourne, Australia which sold billiard tables got in trouble for opening illegally at weekends. They got around the law by becoming a bookshop instead. Their books were expensive - $1,100 each - but with each book purchased you got a free billiard table.

That’s all I can remember now! I would love to get further information about this story, or a link to anything about it on the Internet, if there is one. Thanks.

1 Comment
16
Feb

What do people think of this?

   Posted by: lobo   in Other - News & Events

Saucy B Foxilicious asked:


News from SKY re Madeliene’s parents’ press conference this afternoon:

“They had hoped that a special bookmark with Madeleine’s photograph could be placed in every copy of the new Potter book. But now it is understood that posters of Madeleine will be put up on cash desks at bookshops instead.”

25 Comments
Back to top