“We nearly had a fist fight in here over Pedro Pascal the other day.”

I was expecting many things from my conversation with Victoria Bonner, owner of Hold Fast , a quaint but cool canal barge turned independent bookshop in Leeds Dock, but this was not one of them.

Pascal, who has his own chapter in Gillian Anderson’s tome of sexual fantasies Want , was the subject of fierce debate among the barge’s shoppers, who had strongly held views on Chilean-American hunk’s appeal. The group only managed to find common ground in their mutual shock that one woman didn’t know who Pascal was.

“You don’t get that in Morrisons” Bonner chuckles.

We may think of bookshops and the people who visit them as quiet and considered, but lively debates like this are more common than you’d expect. Boo

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