1968 - Why bookselling was more profitable than drug dealing - a talk by Nick Rochford

In 1968 Nick Rochford together with Diana Gravill opened Compendium Bookshop in Camden. Compendium became the pre-eminent radical/altenative bookshop in Britain. Its readings were legendary - William Burroughs, the Grateful Dead, Toni Morrison and Derek Raymond all spoke there as did hundreds of others. Nick's career has been punctuated by time spent in prison for dealing drugs. Here he will talk for the first time about Compendium and the 1960s and drugs, the Spycatcher book and the Angry Brigade trial. If a book was banned in Britain it was available in Compendium. The shop closed in 2000. William Burroughs, Compendium 1982