Squires, Margaret Joan

19/08/2009

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Margaret Joan Squires comes from St Andrews in Scotland. She started up the best second hand golfing bookshop in the world. Talked about her passion for mountaineering and all of the mountains she's climbed and her career in second hand books and the stores of famous and influential golfers in St Andrews and also how it feels to be responsible for creating a second hand book community in the town. She also talks about the demise of the second hand book shop market due to the internet and supermarkets. In her spare time she was a political activist.