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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 39 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The House of Marvellous Books by Fiona Vigo Marshall
    The House of Marvellous Books - by Fiona Vigo Marshall

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan
    Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop - by Hwang Bo-reum, translated by Shanna Tan

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
    Bookshops & Bonedust - by Travis Baldree

    £18.99   hardback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781035007356 | ISBN 10: 1035007355

    'Glorious' - Ben Aaronovitch, author of the Rivers of London series.   A standalone cosy fantasy about the power of good bookshops, great friends and the unexpected choices along the way from the bestselling author of BookTok sensation Legends & L ... more

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  • Cover image of book Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
    Days at the Morisaki Bookshop - by Satoshi Yagisawa

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown by Shaun Bythell
    Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown - by Shaun Bythell

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
    Death of a Bookseller - by Alice Slater

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
    The Sentence - by Louise Erdrich

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781472157010 | ISBN 10: 147215701x

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN   In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny gh ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookseller
    The Bookseller's Notebooks - by Jalal Barjas

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
    The Cat Who Saved Books - by Sosuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529081480 | ISBN 10: 1529081483

    Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really?  Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive
    Bibliomaniac: An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain - by Robin Ince

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Bookshop in Algiers by Kaouther Adimi
    A Bookshop in Algiers - by Kaouther Adimi

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Bookseller
    The Bookseller's Tale - by Martin Latham

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141991238 | ISBN 10: 0141991232

    A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020   'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'   This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements by Kimberley Kinder
    The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements - by Kimberley Kinder

    £20.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781517909185 | ISBN 10: 151790918x

    How does social change happen? It requires an identified problem, an impassioned and committed group, a catalyst, and a plan.  In this deeply researched consideration of seventy-seven stores and establishments, Kimberley Kinder argues that activ ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why - by Danny Caine

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781621067061 | ISBN 10: 1621067068

    Join the fight for economic justice.  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 the richest person in the world while ... more

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  • Cover image of book Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
    Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops - by Shaun Bythell

    £7.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788166584 | ISBN 10: 1788166582

    In twenty years behind the till in The Bookshop, Wigtown, Shaun Bythell has met pretty much every kind of customer there is - from the charming, erudite and deep-pocketed to the eccentric, flatulent and possibly larcenous. In Seven Kinds of People Y ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago by Lennie Goodings
    A Bite of the Apple: A Life with Books, Writers and Virago - by Lennie Goodings

    £16.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780198828754 | ISBN 10: 0198828756

    'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did ... more

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  • Cover image of book I Can
    I Can't Remember the Title But the Cover is Blue - by Elias Greig, illustrated by Phillip Marsden

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781760529451 | ISBN 10: 1760529451

    Hilarious, unpredictable and, at times, touching, this compilation is the perfect gift for fans of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops and The Diary of a Bookseller.  As any retail or service worker will tell you, customers can be irrational, d ... more

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  • Cover image of book How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) by Danny Caine
    How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman
    The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted - by Robert Hillman

    £8.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780571349784 | ISBN 10: 0571349781

    The perfect book for anyone who's ever had their heart broken, anyone who's ever had their broken heart mended, and anyone who's ever visited a bookshop...  Tom Hope doesn’t chase rainbows. He does his best on the farm – he milks the cows ... more

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  • Cover image of book Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Henry Hitchings (Editor)
    Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World - by Henry Hitchings (Editor)

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781782272960 | ISBN 10: 1782272968

    A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove – we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a s ... more

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  • Cover image of book The All Night Bookshop by David Belbin
    The All Night Bookshop - by David Belbin

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards by Tom Gauld
    The Snooty Bookshop: Fifty Literary Postcards - by Tom Gauld

    £12.99   card deck   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891525 | ISBN 10: 1786891522

    A hilarious collection of fifty postcards celebrating multi-award-winning cartoonist Tom Gauld’s iconic Guardian comics – the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere.  Tom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for the Guardian over th ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
    The Diary of a Bookseller - by Shaun Bythell

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781258637 | ISBN 10: 1781258635

    Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all set in a beautiful, rural town by the edge of the sea. A ... more

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  • Cover image of book Franklin
    Franklin's Flying Bookshop - by Jen Campbell

    £6.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780500651711 | ISBN 10: 050065171x

    A spellbinding story about the magic of books for children aged 3+   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

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  • Cover image of book Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse by Carol Ann Duffy (Editor)
    Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse - by Carol Ann Duffy (Editor)

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509897087 | ISBN 10: 1509897089

    In Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops - the worlds they hold, the freedoms ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon by Catherine Riley
    The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon - by Catherine Riley

    £19.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785338557 | ISBN 10: 1785338552

    The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically diff ... more

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  • Cover image of book Bookshops by Jorge Carrión
    Bookshops - by Jorge Carrión

    £16.99   hardback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780857054449 | ISBN 10: 0857054449

    A journey around the world by way of its best bookshops - the perfect present for book-lovers   Why do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and literature? In this inventive and highly entertaining extended essay, Jorge Carrion takes ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army by Michael Foreman
    The Little Bookshop and the Origami Army - by Michael Foreman

    £11.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783441204 | ISBN 10: 1783441208

    When the Mayor decides to close down Joey's favourite bookshop in order to build a big superstore, Joey calls upon his friend, Origami Girl, to help.  Origami Girl creates an army out of characters from famous children's books to put a stop to the ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George
    The Little Paris Bookshop - by Nina George

    £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

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  • Cover image of book The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
    The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend - by Katarina Bivald

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780701189068 | ISBN 10: 0701189061

    Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen...  The International Bestseller   Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden – except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend Amy inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book Busy Bookshop (Board Book) by Marion Billet
    Busy Bookshop (Board Book) - by Marion Billet

    £6.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781447264262 | ISBN 10: 1447264266

    There's so much to see and do in the Busy Bookshop! Children can join in by pushing, pulling and turning the tabs to bring the shop to life. Spin the wheel to change the pictures in a book, pull the tab to make a dinosaur pop up and help the author t ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell
    The Bookshop Book - by Jen Campbell

    £12.99   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472116666 | ISBN 10: 1472116666

    Every bookshop has a story.  We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.  We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old ru ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Bookshop That Floated Away by Sarah Henshaw
    The Bookshop That Floated Away - by Sarah Henshaw

    £7.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781472108050 | ISBN 10: 1472108051

    The story of an extraordinary bookshop... and everything its owner did to keep it afloat.  In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets by Jessica A. Fox
    Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets - by Jessica A. Fox

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780721712 | ISBN 10: 1780721714

    This is a book for anyone who has ever thought “What if?”   Jessica Fox is living in Hollywood, a 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she is seized by a moment of inspiration and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mr Penumbra
    Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - by Robin Sloan

    £12.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781782391197 | ISBN 10: 1782391193

    Recession has shuffled Clay Jannon out of his life as a Web-design drone and serendipity coupled with sheer curiosity has landed him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore.  And it doesn't take long for Clay to rea ... more

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  • Cover image of book More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell, illustrated by the Brothers McLeod
    More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - by Jen Campbell, illustrated by the Brothers McLeod

    £9.99   hardback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781472106339 | ISBN 10: 1472106334

    A follow up to the bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops.  Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from ... more

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  • Cover image of book Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell
    Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops - by Jen Campbell

    £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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  • Cover image of book Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... by Andrew Laties
    Rebel Bookseller: Why Indie Businesses Represent Everything You Want to Fight For... - by Andrew Laties

    £10.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609801397 | ISBN 10: 1609801393

    Andy Laties has launched five bookselling companies in the past thirty years. In 1987 he won the Women's National Book Association's Pannell Award for his innovative community outreach work at The Children's Bookstore in Chicago. After ten years as a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Firmin by Sam Savage
    Firmin - by Sam Savage

    £8.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780753823392 | ISBN 10: 075382339x

    Firmin is the runt of a litter of rats born in the basement of Pembroke Books, a ramshakle old bookshop run by the equally shambolic owner, Norman Shine. Forced to compete for food, Firmin ends up chewing on the books that surround him. Thanks to his ... more

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