When, at the age of twenty five, Jaimy Barnet returned from studying literature at Cambridge, he did not really intend to remain in Bridbury, the town of his birth. He wanted to get out and see the world, perhaps go into politics, become a lord! But he lost all his ambitions the moment he saw Lucy, the daughter of Mickey and Angie Russel of the "Victoria Inn". He wanted to be with her and they would live in Bridbury. On account of his study and a mass of interesting contacts in the world of literature, they decided to start a bookshop together.

They bought fantastic bookshelves at Harry Darton's antique shop which had once stood in a castle, and flung themselves good spiritedly into the literary depths. School teacher July Lewisham of the St. Joseph Primary School was so pleased with the town’s new acquisition that she had a strawberry pie from baker Pete Hammersmith delivered to them, together with a fitting text by William Shakespeare. Now all Bridbury shops at the Barnet Bookshop. Ladies such as Jeanet Evans of the hat shop, Marianne Chersey of the post office and Annabel Ripley like to read Jane Austin or Lewis Caroll. The dentist, John Andrew Waynes is wild about Charles Dickens and the photographer Francis Harrow devours anything written by Jonathan Swift.

But the real subject of heavy discussion in the St. George's Pub of Bobby Taylor or in the bar of the Victoria Inn, are the works of the Irishman, Thomas Moore, whose books describe a whole new world. Jaimy therefore does not regret his decision to open a bookshop in Bridbury, because he feels that he has made a positive contribution to the development of the little town.