Let’s  hope there will always be bookshops where customers can be  mystics, monks and hunters, devotees of the hidden universe between endpapers. Places where you can dash in to buy a map - and emerge hours later into the light of humdrum day, having travelled the universe and forgotten what it was you went in for.

But there are other channels for those without access to a good bookshop and happy to choose online - while still claiming access to all the pleasures of leisurely browsing.

All my WexYork printed books can be sampled and ordered direct from this site.

Most are available too in multiple eBook formats from Smashwords for immediate sampling and purchase on almost any eBook reading device, including Kindle, iPhone and BlackBerry. Most are also distributed by major online eBook retailers such as the Apple iPad iBookstore, Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo (formerly Shortcovers), and, soon, Amazon. You can take a look right now.