The Bookseller's Tale - Couverture souple

Latham, Martin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141991232 ISBN 13 : 9780141991238

Editeur : Penguin, 2021

Synopsis

A SPECTATOR AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020

'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas

'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan

'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'

This is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical libraries, itinerant pedlars, radical pamphleteers, extraordinary bookshop customers and fanatical collectors, Canterbury bookseller Martin Latham uncovers the curious history of our book obsession - and his own.

Part cultural history, part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books.

'If ferreting through bookshops is your idea of heaven, you'll get the same pleasure from this treasure trove of a book' Jake Kerridge, Sunday Express

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Martin Latham has been a bookseller for thirty-five years. He has a PhD in Indian history, and taught at Hertfordshire University before turning to bookselling. He is proud to be responsible for the biggest petty-cash claim in Waterstones' history, when he paid for the excavation of a Roman bath-house floor under his bookshop. Martin's other books include Kent's Strangest Tales and Londonopolis.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0141991232
• ISBN 13: 9780141991238
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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