Individuals such as the bookseller Noel Brookes are often labelled as eccentric if it is feared they know rather too much about the world and the people in it ("End of an era for chaotic bookshop", The Argus, July 3).

I loved visiting the shop. I loved the anarchic order in the apparent chaos to the uninitiated.

I found a serendipitous gem, C E M Joad's posthumous work of fiction, Folly Farm, exactly where it should be under fiction, letter J. It just so happened to be in the third stack on that floor area - so what? The discovery was sweeter for it. Please come back, Mr Brookes, and add that little extra dash of colour and sanity to our increasingly colourless world.

-Richard W Symonds, Lavington Close, Ifield, Crawley