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On the 5th and 6th of November 2011, Jen wrote one hundred poems in forty eight hours to raise money for charity. This collections includes all 100 poems accompanied by the prompt word used to inspire them.

Jen Campbell?s poetry collection celebrates the presence of the past, in this case childhood and adolescence in the North East, as it floats through the present adult consciousness.

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 Franc...

'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Di...

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country. The response to the book from booksellers all over the world has been one of heartfelt agreement: it would appear that customers are saying bizarre things all over the place - from asking for books with photographs of Jesus in them, to hunting for the be...

Вы — чудак, не отлипающий от книги, пока она не дочитана? Пропускаете за чтением свои автобусные/трамвайные/вертолетные/орбитальные остановки? Вам дороги книжные магазины, в них вы отдыхаете, находите сокровища, влюбляетесь и общаетесь? Тогда эта книга — для вас и ваших друзей с чувством юмора. Все невероятные разговоры в этом сборнике — подлинные анекдоты из жизни, всамделишная история чтения в н...