The shop built a fort out of the books, because why not (Picture: Wales News Service)

It sold more than 125 million copies worldwide, and was made into a (pretty awful) film last year.

But now it looks like everyone’s love affair with Fifty Shades of Grey is well and truly over.

People ‘shackled and chained’ just for having mental illness in Indonesia

An Oxfam bookshop in Swansea is inundated with so many copies of the erotic novel – ‘literally hundreds’ – that they’ve started begging women to stop bringing them in.

The shop now has so many copies of the book, they’ve built a fort out of them.


That’s a lot of Fifty Shades (Picture: Wales News Service)

Phil Broadhurst, the owner, said his shop had become a ‘retirement home’ for copies of EL James’ book and its sequels.

Rory the vampire cat needs a new home

‘We appreciate all the donations,’ he said, ‘but less Fifty Shades and more Sixties and Seventies vinyl would be good.



‘There are a lot of people obsessed by Fifty Shades of Grey. We get people bringing in new copies coming in all the time. Enough is enough.’

Instead of reselling the mountains of rubbish novels, the shop is having to hand the books over to Goldstone Books, which will either sell them online or recycle them.

Goldstone director Rea Stamford-Plows said: ‘I’ve read the book, and I love it.’