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We're not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We're talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I've-ever-been-to-bookshops. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that's invented the world's first antiquarian book vending machine. And that's just the beginning. From the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole) .
About the Author
Jen Campbell grew up in the north east of England and now lives in London. She an award-winning poet and bestselling author of ten books across nonfiction, fiction and poetry. Her latest book, The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers, is forthcoming autumn 2021.Her short story collection The Beginning of the World in the Middle of the Night is published by Two Roads, and her children's picture books, Franklin's Flying Bookshop, Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon and Franklin and Luna and the Book of Fairy Tales are published by Thames & Hudson.She is also the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops series and The Bookshop Book. Her poetry pamphlet The Hungry Ghost Festival is published by The Rialto, and her poetry collection The Girl Aquarium is published by Bloodaxe.Jen has worked in the book trade for fifteen years and runs a Youtube channel over at youtube.com/jenvcampbell. She also reviews books in print, online, and on the radio, gives talks about the history of fairy tales and the representation of disfigurement and disability, and runs writing workshops. She is represented by Charlie Campbell at CCA.
