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Lots of sci-fi and fantasy books that I've kept from my youth and can't bear to part with. Then, the usual eclectic mix of fiction, classics and non-fiction.
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Hesketh Bank, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Brian W. Aldiss, Nelson Algren, Anon, Richard Ashcroft, David Attenborough, Marcus Aurelius, Chet Baker, Pauline Baynes, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, E. F. Benson, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Ray Bradbury, Billy Bragg, Dave Brubeck, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Tim Buckley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Kate Bush, John Cale, Camille, Joseph Campbell, Raymond Chandler, Cherry Ghost, Cocteau Twins, Alice Coltrane, Joseph Conrad, Julian Cope, The Coral, Bernard Cornwell, Elvis Costello, Martin Stephenson and The Daintees, Charles Darwin, Dead Can Dance, Paul Desmond, Charles Dickens, Philip K. Dick, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Lord Dunsany, E. R. Eddison, Elizabeth Fraser, Alan Garner, Kahlil Gibran, Gomez, David Goodis, Edward Gorey, Robert Graves, H. Rider Haggard, Dashiell Hammett, Frank Herbert, William Hope Hodgson, Robert E. Howard, Icicle Works, The Icicle Works, Robert Irwin, Tove Jansson, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, C. G. Jung, Omar Khayyám, Jack Kirby, Laurie Lee, Stan Lee, Fritz Leiber, C. S. Lewis, Jack London, Elias Lönnrot, H. P. Lovecraft, Arthur Machen, Colin MacIntyre, Thomas Malory, Richard Matheson, Linda McCartney, Geraldine McEwan, Patrick McGoohan, Gustav Meyrink, Spike Milligan, Michael Moorcock, Patrick Moore, Van Morrison, Nico, Nico + The Faction, Larry Niven, Mervyn Peake, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Bruce Pennington, Brendon Perry, Pixies, Portishead, Lou Reed, Steve Reich, Carl R. Rogers, Sax Rohmer, Sa-da-kO, Pete Sanders, William Kean Seymour, Mary Shelley, William Sieghart, David Smail, Clark Ashton Smith, Cordwainer Smith, Jon Spencer, Squeeze, Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Bram Stoker, Kae Tempest, The La's, The Smiths, This Mortal Coil, Mark Thomas, J. R. R. Tolkien, T. Rex, Amos Tutuola, Lao Tzu, The Velvet Underground, The Verve, Scott Walker, Margaret S. Warner, H. G. Wells, T. H. White, World Party, Roger Zelazny
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Bookstores: British Museum - Bookshop, Broadhurst's Booksellers, Daniel Thierstein, Buchantiquariat, Fred's Ambleside Bookshop, Halewood & Sons Secondhand Bookshop, News From Nowhere, Reid of Liverpool, Topping & Company, Waterstone's Gower Street

Libraries: Leyland Library, Southport Library, Tarleton Library

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