A bookshop which also sells beer is opening at Oxford's Covered Market today.
Gulp Fiction is being run by Oliver Mason, a former fiction buyer for Blackwell's, who has also worked for the Missing Bean coffee chain as a barista.
Readers will be able to buy a beer or a coffee while they peruse the paperbacks at the store - all selling for £4.50 each.
It's the first time there has been a proper bookshop at the market since The Little Bookshop closed in 2003.
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Gulp Fiction will be open six days a week, from 10.30am to 5.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday.
Mr Mason, 29, said: "I've worked as a buyer for Waterstone's and as a fiction buyer for Blackwell's so I think I know what sells and what books people would like to read.
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"I have always had a drive to create my own bookshop.
"People have told me how happy they are to see a bookshop back in the Covered Market."
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