Brighton is a place that has its fair share of literary connections. Greene’s Brighton Rock, Hamilton’s, Hangover Square and more recently Nigel Richardson’s Breakfast in Brighton are notable highlights in a distinguished canon. Suffice to say that with such a tradition and an upwardly mobile population and two universities Brighton also does well for bookshops. In recent years the bookscene, however, has suffered from the arrival of two giants. Waterstones has grown into a huge emporium at the clocktower and Borders, on Churchill Square, offers it usual excellent stock and attitude. The casualties have been the smaller bookshops that offered ...  Read the complete review