{"product_id":"the-bookshop-book","title":"The Bookshop Book","description":"Review\n\n...it wonderfully illustrates the love of books that sellers and buyers across the world can have ― Image Magazine\n\n...a perfect present for any booklover of your acquaintance -- Harriet Devine\n\nProduct Description\n\nWe're not talking about rooms that are just full of books.\n\nWe're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops.\n\nMeet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine.\n\nAnd that's just the beginning.\n\nFrom the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over two hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).\n\nThe Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.\n\n--\n\n\"A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.\"\n\nDavid Almond\n(The Bookshop Book includes interviews and quotes from David Almond, Ian Rankin, Tracy Chevalier, Audrey Niffenegger, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeanette Winterson and many, many others.)\n\nBook Description\n\nEvery bookshop has a story.\n\nFrom the Author\n\nJen grew up in a small village by the sea in the north-east of England. After studying English Literature at Edinburgh University, she moved to north London to sell books and write stories. She works part-time at an antiquarian bookshop. Jen's first book, 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops,' was published in 2012 and was a Sunday Times Bestseller. The sequel, 'More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops,' was released in 2013. 'Weird Things...' is available in nine languages, and was a finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards. Her new non-fiction book 'The Bookshop Book' will be published October 2014 and is the official book of the 2014 Books Are My Bag campaign. Jen is also an award-winning poet and short story writer. Her poetry pamphlet 'The Hungry Ghost Festival' is published by The Rialto, and she is currently writing her first novel.\n\nFrom the Inside Flap\n\nEvery bookshop has a story\n\nWe're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses and in old run-down railway stations.\n\nFrom the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book explores the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at more than three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents. (Sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).\n\nThis book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.\n\n£12.99\n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nbookshops are\ntime machines\nspaceships\nstory-makers\nsecret-keepers\ndragon-tamers\ndream-catchers\nfact-finders\nand safe places.\n\n(this book is for those who know this to be true)\n[all back cover text to be centered and all lower case]\n\nAbout the Author\n\nJen Campbell grew up in the North East of England, and graduated from Edinburgh University with an MA in English Literature. She's a published poet and short story writer. She lives in North London where she works at Ripping Yarns bookshop.","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39666260738133,"sku":"9781472116666N","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/a12833b6-738d-4779-a260-8bcb2c643d7b.jpg?v=1639046434","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-bookshop-book","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}