It’s the time of the year when many eyes look towards the Holy City of Jerusalem and for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I’m doing the same, with this extraordinary shot taken by Jon (Johnk85), of the Or Shalem - Jerusalem Lights the Night light show.
Billed as a “spellbinding experience for the most [...]

If you managed to catch my Honesty Bookshop, Hay on Wye feature on Bookshelf of the Week a few weeks, or the more recently featured bookshelf stuck to the front of an apartment block in Tallinn, Estonia, you’d know I’m drawn towards shots of books stored outside in the open. It’s something that both compels [...]

I seem to have a bit of a thing for bookshelves featured on buildings. Last week’s Bookshelf of the Week you may remember, was Siggimus’ shot of the really enigmatic bookshelf tacked to the outer wall of an apartment in Tallinn, Estonia and this week I bring you another bookshelf stuck to the side of [...]

I know absolutely nothing about the origins of the subject for this week’s Bookshelf of the Week other than it was taken (I think?) in the capital of Estonia, Tallinn by Icelandic photographer siggimus. However the bizarre location for this bookshelf i.e. on the outer wall of a tower block, meant I couldn’t possibly miss [...]

For this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I thought I’d have a bit of fun. Pictured is one of a series of photographs by Finnish artist/photographer Maija Luutonen. The series forms part of her project ”Let’s Pretend”, where Maija has created a series of images in which people camouflage themselves into their environments in order [...]

For this week’s Bookshelf of the Week I thought I’d do something a little different. The bookshelf shot shown above is from a collection of thirty designs featured in an article from Freshome, entitled 30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs. Featured, are some of the most amazing bookshelves I’ve seen, which vary from ingenious [...]

Located in the grounds of Hay Castle, Wales is the Honesty Bookshop, a 24-hour open air bookshop where people select books and post the money for them through a small letterbox (see pictures below). My first fear was (still is) the book’s exposure to the elements but I’m hoping that they are snapped up so [...]

Wednesday is Bookshelf of the Week day and while I normally feature bookshelves that are made more significant through the presence of books that are on them, this week in the run up to Remembrance Day (November 11th), a time when we look back and remember the darker periods in our history (and think long [...]

Wednesday, as if you didn’t know already, is BookShelf of the Week day, when I spotlight a particular bookshelf (or shelves) that’s taken my fancy. After the foray into the bookcases of medieval monuments over the past couple of weeks, this week sees the return to the home, and these awesome bookcases of Norwegian Øyvind [...]

Wednesday is Bookshelf of the Week day, and keeping with last week’s historical European theme, this week’s featured bookshelves, as shown in this shot from Martin Haesemeyer, are the ones found in the awe-inspiring UNESCO World Heritage protected Stift Melk Benedictine Monastery in Austria.
Handed to the Benedictine Order by Leopold II at the end of [...]