In a nutshell: Ideal for the kind of person who normally enjoys wiling away hour after hour in dusty old bookshops. Written with a real bookish passion, and containing some truly memorable real-life characters, Sixpence House is the perfect reading … [Read more...]
Fuelling my love for books with books about books
January 7, 2009 By 7 Comments
You'll remember before Christmas I pointed you to librarian Leah Smith's Books about... Books! reading list over at Flashlight Worthy? You may even remember in the same post I spoke about two titles in Leah's list that really took my fancy i.e. Ex … [Read more...]
BookShelf of the Week: Honesty Bookshop
November 12, 2008 By 8 Comments
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 … [Read more...]