Readers rejoice as shop finally sells book that sat on shelf for 27 years

Announcement of unusually slow sale of Pitkin children’s biography of William the Conqueror retweeted 150,000 times

An independent bookshop in Merseyside has warmed the hearts of hundreds of thousands of readers around the world after revealing the sale of a book that had sat forgotten on its shelves for 27 years.

Broadhursts of Southport’s part-time staff member Joanne Ball announced on Twitter that she had just sold a book in stock since May 1991. “We always knew its day would come,” she wrote of the Pitkin children’s biography of William the Conqueror – unaware that her announcement would be retweeted almost 150,000 times as book-lovers worldwide rejoiced in the book finally finding a home.

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