The Window Display

My window displays change weekly and they always attract a sale or too, but never have they had as much success as this one. After I oiled the bench in the early hours I remembered it was window-changing day and my mind went blank. There was no stock I wanted to display that hadn't already been displayed recently. I have done Valentines Day soft porn and relationship stuff; expensive photography books; Mind/Body/Spirit books; crime; sci-fi; Huntin'/Shootin'/ Fishin'; local history; Scottish History; Poetry; ridiculously expensive children's books (that is always popular because folk like to remember when they had a copy of 'that book you are asking all that money for but my mother/wife gave it away, the dog ate it, the neighbour went off with it, the baby was sick on it' etc. etc. etc.... ) What I have never bothered to put in is paperback fiction - there are those four darned charity shops in town - but for once, as I was stumped, I decided on Great British Fiction as my theme. Looking through the stock available the theme began to evolve until it became an homage to Penguin. Very smart it looked when finished, the black Penguin Classics in the forefront, older orange ones behind, but by 9.45 I had already sold three. One of which was a D.H.Lawrence and I'll swear I haven't sold any of his novels for two years. Since then two more in their black strip have gone. Blessings on you Penguin.