Back in the late 1990s, not long after the creation of Amazon, Great Yarmouth man Paul Ryan established his own internet-based booksellers.

The shop was an extension of his love of reading.

An accountant by trade, Mr Ryan used to stay behind in the office on Beevor Road three nights a week while his two sons went to TS Warrior in Cobholm.

"I would be in the office until 9pm waiting to collect them from cadets," Mr Ryan says.

"So to switch off from work I followed my lifelong passion of reading and was buying boxes of books from the auction rooms.

Shelves of books at Yare Books on Queens Road in Great Yarmouth. (Image: Supplied) "One day the auctioneer asked me what I did with the books I didn’t read and I showed him a spare office with boxes of books in it."

The auctioneer suggested Mr Ryan could sell the spare books on Ebay and so the business, Yare Books, was formed.

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