Small Business Saturday

 

Prints of Hay has just opened in the building at the end of the Castle drive that used to be Nepal Bazaar - and before that was the Five Star bookshop selling science fiction for Richard Booth, the name being a hangover from when it was a military bookshop!

It's been beautifully re-decorated inside - but watch out for the Very Low Beam across the middle of the room!

I had a lovely chat with Aidan Saunders, who makes the prints, and has also illustrated some stories of the Mabinogion for children.  He told me that, although he grew up in Wales, he had never heard of the legends until he moved to London, at which point he became fascinated with them.

[Edited to add: he also stocks Pollock's Toy Theatres, as mentioned in the blog Spitalfields Life - from their famous Covent Garden shop]