Notting Hill Book Exchange

All the people who work here are idiots. I don’t think they mean to be but they have the mindset that people who work in second had book/record stores have – ie that they are superior and know far more on the subject than you ever will. They always have industrial jazz or worse, Nick Cave (I love Nick Cave but like the Velvet Underground it’s totally safe music that noone would ever admit to not liking) playing too loud in the background and over which they make loud in-jokes about comics or whatever that you are meant to be impressed by as I catch them giving me a stealthy side glance. The NHBE is I think the best secondhand bookshop particularly if you are looking for anything on or related to music, film, art, and photography. It’s cramped as the comics take up too much space but I never leave without a few good finds or spending more than a tenner.