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The Bookshop is a narrative overview of the history of independent bookstores in the United States. Each chapter focuses on a different bookstore, describing its history, contributions to its local community, and eventual decline. There are intermissions throughout the book looking at the bookselling industry more broadly.
As a novel by a still relatively unknown writer, The Bookshop appeared to mostly condescending initial reviews. [3] The Times called it "a harmless, conventional little anecdote, well-tailored but uninvolving"; The Guardian a "disquieting" novel about "really nasty people living in a really nice little coastal town"; and The Times Literary Supplement, while calling it "marvellously piercing ...
Jane Campbell (born 1942 in Hoylake) is a British writer. Her first work is the short story collection Cat Brushing, published in 2022, which the New York Times compared to the work of Edna O'Brien and Muriel Spark. Her debut novel Interpretations of Love was published in the summer of 2024.
Campbell relays a fascinating, provocative and strangely uplifting series of interviews with those who take care of us when we die: from embalmers to funeral directors, bereavement midwives to ...
Books can be exchanged for credit in the ground-breaking new scheme
The'Jean Brodie' actress' family now runs a celeb-favorite bookshop. Jennifer Kline. ... It's called Mystery Pier Books, and it sells rare first-edition books. The shop is co-owned by Franklin's ...