The Bookshop Book

 You absolutely need this book in your life if you want to call yourself a ‘true' reader. Spanning continents, cultures, personalities, Jen Campbell communicates the unique feeling of being a reader and the proud owner of a bookshop. Large, small, famous, obscure. It doesn't matter. From Greece to Mongolia, from France to Singapore, from the USA to Nigeria, this volume is a true homage to the Bookshop, the most sacred space after a church.

''We've always used stories as a way to pass on our history, as a way to explain things in life that we don't understand. We use them to make us feel connected to everything around us, and to help us escape to another time and place.Bookshops across the world are full of these stories.From travelling booksellers and undercover bookshops, to pop-up stalls and community hubs, walking into another zone. These places are time machines, spaceships, story-makers, secret-keepers. They are dragon-tamers, dream-catchers, fact-finders and safe places. They are full of infinite possibilities, and tales worth taking home.Because whether we're in the middle of the desert or in the heart of a city, on the top of a mountain or on an underground train:having good stories to keep us company can mean the whole world.'‘Jen Campbell