Favorite quote: “Kenny’s Bookshop. Everywhere inside I could feel this splendid excess, more books than I could ever read or choose from, more paintings, more cards, booklets, paper for writing books on, notebooks for everyday and journals for leather-bound gold-tooled satin-ribbon perfect days to come. It was easy to long for time, endless time, to sit somewhere out of the way and look: to read and buy and read and leave, and return. In summer the sun crushed in too: in winter the books settled into their shelves and except at Christmas, it was then a peaceful place.”

From the publisher: “There’s not a reader who doesn’t have a favourite bookshop, so here is a collection from across the world. Some began as churches, printing presses or medieval houses. Some take up tiny corners, others have many floors and hundreds of shelves. Some have gone; others are still there for us to visit. 18 Bookshops is about bookshops, famous and obscure. But it is also a map of books and of a life.”

Softcover

5 × 8 inches | 128 pages