A few doors down from Blackwell, Southside is a trusty independent bookshop with bags of character. Specialising in new and secondhand tomes, it has dozens of wooden bookcases groaning with the weight of academic textbooks on everything from politics, socialism, science, history, geography and medicine to language and literary criticism.\n\nFor post graduates that would rather lose a pinkie than read another textbook, they also stock some interesting fiction and hardbacks on travel, photography, art and local history. I found a mint copy of David Hockney's Alphabet sandwiched between well thumbed books on Picasso and Monet. The latter were reasonably priced but the former was a bit too expensive with just \u00a34 shaved off the original RRP.
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