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Shaun Bythell: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops


The store reopened about two weeks ago, and customers have begun trickling back, Bythell says.
On the whole I try to think of myself more as an observer than a critic of people s behaviour. I m rarely actually rude to people face to face, I try and just reflect people s behaviour back to them, so if they re rude to me I ll be rude to them. But most customers aren t rude, most of them are fine.
Shaun Bythell
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So, I think I actually quite like it when people are rude or say annoying things, because it gives me something to write about. And that s been one of the problems of lockdown, because no customers means no material.   ....

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The seven-headed dragon that terrified all of Malta


Treasures of Malta, 
Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti
It had to be something like the latest issue of Treasures of Malta to provide a most welcome modi­cum of cheer in these bleak times, not least with its striking cover of a detail from a 16th-century frescoed map of Malta hailing the 1565 victory over the Ottomans. It lies in the Hall of Maps at the Vatican, one among several showing the lands over which the pope held authority. In 1732, Louis XV gifted Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena with a fine portrait of himself by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Van Loo took over the commission from the famous portrait painter Hyacinthe Regnaud and managed to paint a most competent work of art, which is one the highlights of the President’s Palace but “which has failed to be given its due academic importance”. Carlos Bongalais’s paper supplies the background to this painting, which has tended to be overlooked in the palace’s collection. ....

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