I was in The Works last weekend - a chain of bookshops specialising in remainders that are a feature of many British High Streets. A few years ago, I think they went into administration, as the Oldham branch was closed for around a year, before reopening around 9 months ago. When they did reopen, I guess they had problems sourcing stock, as they did not have many paperbacks in stock.
Anyway, the position has changed significantly. When I was in, they had 200+ different titles in their "3 for £5 or £1.99 each" offer, with lots of interesting titles. Having said that, I only bought one book, but it was a real bargain. I was going to buy "The Tiger That Isn't" by Blastland and Dilnot at full price in Waterstones, but they had a really nice copy of the original "posh paperback" edition (RRP of £12.99) in their offer - quite a result. They also had the large format version of the excellent Bad Science in the offer.
Only had a skim of the first few pages of TTTI, but it looks really good. The authors present the Radio4 show, More or Less, that specialises in the statistics of everyday life, so it is right up my street.
I'll post a review when I have finished.
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Dom, in TTTI is there any guidance of calculating the probability of anyone else posting on our bookclub blog?!
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