As I work in a charity second-hand bookshop I get to flip through all kinds of deeply strange books.

Oddest one lately: Leilah Wendell, "The Book of Azrael". I didn't read all of it, but enough to send me to Google to find out what the heck the author was up to. The YouTube interview is... not your typical author sales pitch.

It sold in a couple of days. The very quiet young woman who bought it looked almost human.

We had one regular customer who is now in jail for murder (David Gilroy) and a large donation of books that belonged to a man who is now out of jail for a dramatic attempted multiple murder (Paul Agutter). If you want an Amazon-like recommendation: Agutter's thing was Penguin Classics, Gilroy bought rather nondescript contemporary fiction like Sebastian Faulks.

We also recently sold a copy of Tolkien's "The Two Towers" that had been in the patients' library at Broadmoor. Sadly, no annotations by Ian Brady or Peter Sutcliffe.