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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***

A unique, funny picture of Britain… A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport. Richard Osman

Ince s love of books is infectious. Books of the Year , Independent

Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince s stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided instead to go on a tour of over a hundred bookshops in the UK, from Wigtown to Penzance; from Swansea to Margate.

Packed with witty anecdotes and tall tales, Bibliomaniac takes the reader on a journey across Britain as Robin explores his lifelong love of bookshops and books – and also tries to find out just why he can never have enough of them.

It is the story of an addiction and a romance, and also of an occasional points failure just outside Oxenholme.