London bookshop offers free books for the rest of your life. Nov 07, 2014 books for london is trying to get a book drop off point in as many tube and train stations as possible, while books on the underground lets people drop books on public trasnport with a sticker on. An empty pub in north london reopened its doors as a bookshop with 100,000 free books in october how many do you think have been taken so far. Located in what is known as greater london, my back pages is definitely worth taking the trip with the tube. Healthy planet opens books for free shops published june 27. The waterloo branch of foyles offers a bubble of tranquillity in the uks busiest rail terminus. Not only is it packed with literature old and new, it regularly hosts free.
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