William Pryor is chairman of Bookbarn International at Hallatrow near Bristol, where he has been adding the finishing touches to The Darwin Room - a long cherished project aimed at creating an emporium of the oldest and rarest books specially selected from the Bookbarn archives.

Highly collectible, all the books in the Darwin Room are for sale and categories include children's books, religious manuscripts, history (both local and national), spot, classic fiction, biography and factual books.