Bookshop of the Month: May Drake the Bookshop Can you tell us more about Drake the Bookshop, why you decided to open a bookshop and how it’s evolved? Unfortunately, I had fallen out of love with teaching and during a weekend away we came across a bookshop and cafe in Penrith. It seemed like a great place and led to a few conversations about the fact it might be something we could do. The Christmas break of that year our son pointed out that we had spent a long time chatting about opening a bookshop and were we going to do it? Nine months later in September 2015 we opened in a start up hub on Stockton high street in a space 125 square feet. A year later having grown to 250 square feet we moved on to Silver Street into our own shop and from there in 2021 we expanded again and opened the children's shop.  On your website, you have a definition of a bookshop as a “sanctuary, welcoming place, refuge, treasure trove, portal to other worlds, safe space, beating heart of high street...