A Book Barge Returns To London’s Canals

By · January 20, 2012 at 12:00 pm · 6 Comments · Miscellaneous · Report an error ·

Calling all book fans! The/A Book Barge (literally, a bookshop on a barge) is moored on the Grand Union Canal, east of the Angel entrance, for the next two weeks. Edit: due to the comment below, we’re not sure whether this is the same slow-roaming biblioboat that has gathered acres of press and it’s a good sign when Lee Rourke, author of The Canal – love letter to slowing down and taking stock – is a fan, or a different one. If there are two in existence, that’s pretty mad. But also excellent.

Photo by Marie Phillips

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  • http://twitter.com/leewilshire Lee Wilshire

    Err as far as I’m aware The Book Barge to which you are linking and which had a lot of press in the summer is currently in Staffordshire for the winter. This is a different boat selling books.

  • Taikonaut

    Yeah, it’s a different one. They were both briefly in the same place one day last year which was quite odd.

  • The Book Barge

    Yep, as the proprietress of The Book Barge I can definitely confirm that it’s still in Staffs. It’ll hopefully be back in London for a week or two in March, however. The picture above is a different book-selling vessel called Word on the Water (I think). For more info about The Book Barge, including events and touring details, check out http://www.thebookbarge.co.uk

  • Katrogers76

    Here is the Facebook page, the only link I know for the barge selling books on the Grand Union…
    http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Word-On-The-Water/140740352673628

  • DaveD

    Are either of these connected with the converted Thames lighter I saw moored at Greenwich near the Cutty Sark/Gypsy Moth a few years ago, also called ‘the Book Barge’?

  • Natalia

    I would like to share this at FB…

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