Book review: ‘Bibliomaniac’ by Robin Ince

Thanks to my sister-in-law for buying me this book. She and I have a thing about bookshops, so she thought I’d like it. She was right.

Bibliomaniac tells the story of writer and comedian Robin Ince’s tour of 104 independent local bookshops to promote his latest book. In the process, he seems to buy almost as many books as he sells.

I was surprised at how many of the shops mentioned I had already visited, but there were plenty of new ones to add to the list. Unbeknown to my sister-in-law, I actually attended one of Ince’s bookshop gigs, at the Book Case in Hebden Bridge. I got to chat with him briefly afterwards about Charles Darwin (obviously) and Richard Feynman.