Hardback · Fiction
The Long Thaw
Marguerite Aldy
A winter novel about a shuttered mountain railway and the sisters who refuse to leave it. Read it slowly, with something warm.
Pressed on you by Ines
Our story
We took the lease because of the light at seven o’clock
Nightjar began as two friends, a van full of second-hand paperbacks and a shop unit nobody else wanted because the floor slopes. We kept the slope. We added lamps, an unreasonable number of armchairs and a rule that no book goes on the front table unless someone here has actually finished it.
Three booksellers run the place now — Ines on fiction and translation, Bram on poetry and the late Friday hours, Wren on essays, children’s books and the special orders that arrive wrapped in brown paper. Between us we read a great deal and sleep a little.
There is no algorithm behind the counter. Tell us the last book that kept you up and we will find you the next one.
- Three
- narrow rooms, one crooked staircase
- Since 2011
- independent, stubbornly so
- 400+
- handwritten recommendation cards
