A Factotum in the Book Trade
By: Marius Kociejowski
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen else…
Want to Read $ 9.97"As for the shop there is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, 'Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.' They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. I have heard the line a thousand times and never, never have I sold a book to any one of those people."-Marius Kociejowski, A Factotum in the Book Trade
"As for the shop there is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, 'Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.' They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. I have heard the line a thousand times and never, never have I sold a book to any one of those people."-Marius Kociejowski, A Factotum in the Book Trade
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1. The Temporary Gentleman
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2. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
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Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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"I warn you," said the funny-looking little man with the red beard, "I'm here to sell this caravan … read more
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4. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)
By: Jane Gardam
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By: Charles Williams
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6. Instead of a Letter: A Memoir
By: Diana Athill
3.87
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7. The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story
By: Julia Reed
3.62
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9. The Haunted Bookshop
By: Christopher Morley
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Format: 320 pages,
"When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, … read more
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10. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
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By: Shaun Bythell
4.01
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?" Shaun Bythell is the own… read more
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"Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing)."-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
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"On the news this morning was a story about four men who have been abducted from a bookshop in Hong Kong for disseminating literature critical of the Chinese regime. Bookselling can be a perilous busi…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
"Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив: - Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги? Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка са…"-Shaun Bythell, Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)
12. The Insider (Solomon Vine, #2)
By: Matthew Richardson
4.20
Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition
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13. Time Shelter
By: Georgi Gospodinov
3.75
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning Bulgarian author Georgi Gospodinov has enthralled readers around the world with his l… read more
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"Time feeds on us. We are food for time."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"Ако не сме в нечия памет, има ли ни изобщо?"-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
"There is no time machine except the human being."-Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter
14. Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (The Diary of a Bookseller, #3)
By: Shaun Bythell
4.11
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of she… read more
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15. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
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3.92
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more
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3.22
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3.97
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"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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26. A Factotum in the Book Trade
By: Marius Kociejowski
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
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29. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service
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4.49
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30. Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation
By: Brenda Wineapple
4.40
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31. Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
By: Michael Hingston
3.85
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On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed w… read more
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