There's growing eveidence that in these harsh economic times more and more people are turning there backs on expensive forms of entertainment and turning towards, yes you've guessed it, BOOKS. Yes indeed, pretty cheap couple of nights in is a book, especially when bought secondhand, although new books can also be cool too. Books on thrifty subjects, so I'm told, such as Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food, are very popular at the moment. Curiously though also popular are books about extreme wealth and opulent lifestyles. We saw it in thearly 1980s with TV programmes like Dynasty and Dallas and books like Jackie Collins and Jilly Cooper's really taking off. The escapism that a book book can deliver, it seems, just cannot be beaten. But then again I would say that being a bookseller wouldn't I....