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This is the world's best bookstore and it's in Uppsala, Sweden

This year, the London Book Fair picked The English Bookshop in Uppsala as its International Excellence bookstore of the year. Previously awarded to the iconic Shakespeare & Co in Paris, this prize puts a community bookshop in a small Swedish city firmly on the map. The Local's contributor Madeleine Hyde met the owner, Jan Smedh, to hear the story of how his passion produced a bookstore worthy of international recognition.