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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£8.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781914148231 | ISBN 10: 1914148231
Tucked away in a near-derelict library in the centre of London, The House of Marvellous Books is a publishing house on the brink of financial disaster. With assistant Ursula asleep at her desk, head publisher Gerard going health and safety mad, and c ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781526662279 | ISBN 10: 1526662272
There was only one thing on her mind. 'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man, get a respectable job. Then it all fell apart. Burned out, Yeongju abandons her old life, qui ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781786583239 | ISBN 10: 1786583232
Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop ha ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781800812437 | ISBN 10: 1800812434
Bookseller and bestselling author Shaun Bythell is back, and he has some thoughts about that Kindle you bought over lockdown. The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529385328 | ISBN 10: 1529385326
THE MOST ANTICIPATED DEBUT THRILLER OF 2023, WHICH WILL MAKE YOUR SKIN CRAWL AND YOUR HEART POUND. ‘A confident, sassy, pitch-black debut’ CAROLINE KEPNES ‘Your new obsession’ ERIN KELLY ‘Savage, witty and all-consuming’ ABIGAIL ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781623718206 | ISBN 10: 1623718201
Winner of the 2021 International Prize for Arabic Fiction, this novel explores themes of loneliness, homelessness, and mental illness. After losing his job and refuge, Ibrahim al-Warraq, a bookseller, decides to live with the homeless peopl ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838957698 | ISBN 10: 1838957693
‘A unique, funny picture of Britain... A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince’s stadium tour with Professor Brian Co ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788164702 | ISBN 10: 1788164709
On a quiet backstreet in Algiers is an unremarkable building with a remarkable history... 'A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature.' Nick Hornby 'Truly potent ... Adimi confronts us w ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912054473 | ISBN 10: 1912054477
Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Â Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial hear ... more
View book details£3.50 (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781621065265 | ISBN 10: 162106526x
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more
View book details£4.95 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781907598760 | ISBN 10: 1907598766
An elusive owner who lives on the top floor but is never seen… customers who turn up after midnight in slippers and dressing gown, driven by an urgent desire for a book about Icelandic myths or pottery… a beautiful and insomniac shop manager who ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780500651711 | ISBN 10: 050065171x
A spellbinding story about the magic of books for children aged 3+ Â Franklin the dragon loves stories and loves reading stories to people too, but everyone is too scared to even look at him. One day he meets a girl named Luna who, far from being ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349140377 | ISBN 10: 0349140375
The international bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop is a delightful, bittersweet tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love and friendship. On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean Perdu runs a bookshop; ... more
View book details£8.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780334837 | ISBN 10: 1780334834
From the hugely popular blog, a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments. 'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['Wha ... more
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