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The Battle of the Bookshops Style Casual Nimona and Lord Blackheart areThe cute, seaside town of Portneath has been the home of Capelthornes Books for nearly a hundred years The shop, in the heart of a high street that stretches crookedly down the hill from the castle to the sea, may be a tad run down these days, but to Jules Capelthorne, the wonky, dusty world of literary treasures is full of precious childhood memories. When her great aunt Florence gets too frail to run it alone, Jules ditches her junior publishing job