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Various, but especially books about, or by, monomaniacs, bibliophiles, scholars, cranks, aesthetes, heretics, hermits, introverts, fanatics, conspirators, nomads, sceptics, loners, radicals, monks, cognoscenti, idlers, outsiders, frontiersmen, stoics, etc
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'It must be supposed that reading was one of his morbid habits, as he fell upon everything that came into his hands with equal avidity...' (Chekhov, Ward No. 6, 1892)
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Inverness, Scotland
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Bookstores: Borders - Birmingham, Leakey's Bookshop, Oxfam Bookshop - Birmingham, Oxfam Bookshop - Worcester, Waterstone's Birmingham High Street, Waterstone's Birmingham New Street, Waterstone's Leamington Spa

Libraries: Acocks Green Library, Library of Birmingham, Main Library - University of Birmingham, Olton Library, Selly Oak Library, Solihull Central Library

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