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New Christian Bookshop launched in Salisbury by Mark Clifford: Sarum Books
This post is part of the continuing series about the run down and asset-stripping of the former-SPCK Bookshop chain by Mark and Phil Brewer and their organisation “Saint Stephen the Great Charitable Trust”.
Rubies in the dust are becoming more common, and we now have at least five bookshops set up addressing the market niches previously occupied by SPCK (Leicester, Norwich, Lincoln, Cardiff and Salisbury) and often run by ex-SPCK staff.
There are also a number of other independent initiatives that I don’t know enough about to add to this list.
The ex-Manager of the bookshop at Sarum College Mark Clifford is opening a new bookshop in Catherine Street in Salisbury. There is a report in the Church Times tomorrow.
(My apologies to more general readers not tracking this campaign, but the people running down the former SPCK Bookshops need to be held to account, and I think the story is of political relevance as SPCK used to provide one of the key platforms for serious dialogues between communities in the UK. If I can help new initiatives by a post here I’m proud to do so.)
Mark Clifford is chairman of the Booksellers Association’s Christian Booksellers Group.
