"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
"I love the smell of book ink in the morning." Umberto Eco
Chris Stewart. Sort Of Books. (304p) ISBN 9781908745859 This book had been hanging about on my shelves ever since I watched Richard E Grant talk to Chris on the BBC4 show ‘Write Around the World’. This is a bit of a new experience for me as I don’t read memoirs or travel writing, but working …
Anita Sethi. Bloomsbury. (320p) ISBN 9781472983930 When I first started this book I found the description of the racial assault and bereavement of a close friend so heartbreaking and being in a very sensitive personal space at the time I had to put it down to digest and flow through me. I remember Anita tweeting …
Iqbal Ahmed. Coldstream Publishers. (204p) ISBN 9781527253216 It was a delight to receive this gorgeous book and before I even started reading I was delighted in the binding as it is so luxurious, the black with gold really catches the eye and the cloth binding makes it a pleasure to hold. Once I started reading …
Grace Dent. HarperCollings. (304p) ISBN 9780008333188 I was lucky enough to get an advanced reading copy of Hungry from Hachette and was so pleased when it arrived almost the next day. It was going to be my whole reading for a whole weekend and I was going to savour it to the full, taking bite-sized …
Shaun Bythell. Profile Books. (320p) ISBN 9781781258637 This was another book I bought as part of me really getting into the bookseller lark and reading a lot to do with other booksellers through the years, this though was by far the funniest and the closest to home. The cast of recurring characters really added a …