When was the last time you thought you deserved a refund? Or wanted to complain about the service you were getting? Did you write a strongly worded letter? Did you fire off an angry email? Or did you phone and spend a frustrating afternoon being passed around a call centre?
And did you actually get the result you wanted?
Every day, hundreds of legitimate complaints get lost in a mess of corporate bureaucracy, outsourced departments and labyrinthine procedures. As consumers, we may try our hardest to let companies know when we
Who most deserves my charitable donations? What are my household cleaners doing to my family's health? Was the person who made my shoes paid fairly? Our lives are beset by such dilemmas. None have easy answers. But more and more of us want to try and do the right thing. Somehow we must reduce our demands on the planet
This new edition is the definitive guide to London's bookshops, covering the area within the M25. Now completely revised and updated, it details all bookshops - new, secondhand, antiquarian and specialist - in and around the capital. The guide is easy to use, with comprehensive indexes allowing all stores to be identified both by location and by main subject specialisation. The lively and informative descriptions are accompanied by essential facts such as opening hours and range of services provided. Hugely useful within trade itself, the first edition of THE BOOKSHOPS OF LONDON sold over 20, 000 copies and proved to be especially popular with book-loving visitors. It is an indispensable reference guide for all those interested in books and bookshops.