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Dec 16, 2008

Spotted

Near the new office

I have to walk past this bookshop to get to The Guardian’s new offices in Kings Cross, and every day I find myself wondering whether they stock special books for and about the scourges of the seas. As well as yer actual books like Red Rackham’s Treasure (from the Tintin series) and The Pirate’s Daughter, my suggested stocklist would include:

  1. Where the Wild Things Arrrrrrr
  2. Blackbeard Beauty
  3. A Yarrrrr in Provence

Any more suggestions?

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18 Responses

  1. Sour Grapes says:
    December 16, 2008 at 11:52 am

    I think it means you can buy all the books you want, but you can only read them in bed, at night, on a ship in the North Sea.

  2. William T says:
    December 16, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    Do they sell memory games?

  3. Matt says:
    December 16, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    I would have thought it was a shop where seafaring buccaneers can gather some useful literature about their impending adventures!!

  4. Chrislunch says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:29 pm

    The Cat ‘o Nine Tails in the Hat
    The Children of the Tricorn

    . . . if we’re just doing kiddy pirate books.

  5. James Wallis says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    DVDs of ‘It’s A Plunderful Life”?

    There is of course the pirate store in San Francisco.

  6. Meg says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    Oh I’ve just realised my one above should have been Blackbeard’s Booty.

    It’s tragic when you can’t even get your own jokes right.

  7. Chrislunch says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    Tales of Beadle the Barrrrd.

  8. Meg says:
    December 16, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    …or indeed, Tales of Beadle on Board?

  9. Cliff says:
    December 16, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Hearties Of Darkness
    Dublooners
    Rikki Tikki Savvy

  10. John V Willshire says:
    December 16, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    I love Red Rackham’s treasure… roll on Spielberg’s Tintin :)

    Anyway, pirate books…

    i) The Old Curiousity Ship
    ii) Farrrrrr from the madding crowd
    iii) Arrrrrrt of Darrrrrrrrkness

    …and songs, for good measure…

    i) The first cutlass is the deepest
    ii) Heaven is a place on Arrrrrrrth
    iii) Anything by Oarasis

  11. Helen-LG says:
    December 16, 2008 at 5:04 pm

    love it! Can’t resist a bit of Piratey humour, struggling to think of any good book names though…

    If it’s songs you want:

    Sail Away
    The Tide is High
    Ship of fools
    What shall we do with the drunken sailor
    In the Navy
    Ooh Arrrgh Just A Little Bit
    Who Let the Scurvy Dogs Out
    Rock The Boat
    Arrgh You Lonesome Tonight

    … I should probably go do some work at some point!

  12. Vicky says:
    December 16, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    My favourite read (and film) as a child – The Secret Garrrrrden.

  13. Chrislunch says:
    December 16, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    A voyage around my faaaather

  14. Claire says:
    December 17, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Surely, as a double whammy, Jamaicaarr Inn.

  15. David says:
    December 17, 2008 at 10:18 am

    Catcher in the Raaaaye.
    Booty and the Beastie

  16. Dan says:
    December 17, 2008 at 11:09 am

    The Short Plank Redemption.

  17. Julia says:
    December 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm

    A million little pieces of eight?

  18. Meg says:
    December 20, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    These are BRILLIANT. You are, collectively, marvellous.

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