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Barker & Co. Booksellers: Oxford’s newest independent bookshop

A new secondhand bookstore opened in Oxford city centre last week. Located in the Golden Cross shopping centre, just off Cornmarket Street, the bookstore stocks hundreds of secondhand books, ranging from accessibly priced paperbacks to rare and expensive antiquarian first-editions.

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Culture

Barker & Co. Booksellers: Oxford’s newest independent bookshop

‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ in review

Inarticulacy in part and in whole: ‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ in review

On Geese and the Cult of the Fake Fan

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