THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM PRODUCED BY JULIA ROBERTSNothing is as permanent as it appears... Denver, 1962 Kitty Miller has come to terms with her unconventional single life. She loves the bookshop she runs with her best friend, Frieda, & enjoys complete control over her day-to-day existence. Then the dreams begin. Denver, 1963 Katharyn Andersson is married to Lars, the love of her life. They have beautiful children, an elegant home, & good friends. It`s everything Kitty Miller once believed she wanted
- but it only exists when she sleeps. Convinced that these dreams are simply due to her overactive imagination, Kitty enjoys her nighttime forays into this alternate world. But with each visit, the more irresistibly real Katharyn`s life becomes. Can she choose which life she wants? If so, what is the cost of staying Kitty, or becoming Katharyn?A hauntingly powerful novel that freshly considers the timeless question
- ` What if?`

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, & as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural & even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice. ...

In a small East Anglian town, Florence Green decides, against polite but ruthless local opposition, to open a bookshop. Hardborough becomes a battleground. Florence has tried to change the way things have always been done, & as a result, she has to take on not only the people who have made themselves important, but natural & even supernatural forces too. Her fate will strike a chord with anyone who knows that life has treated them with less than justice. ...

We`re not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We`re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches & underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, & in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I`ve-ever-been-to-bookshops. Meet Sarah & 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. & 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, & looks at over two hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we`ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole). The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world. ”A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world & making a difference.” (David Almond). The Bookshop Book

Includes:: interviews "es from David Almond, Ian Rankin, Tracy Chevalier, Audrey Niffenegger, Jacqueline Wilson, Jeanette Winterson & many, many others.

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In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats & moles in rowing boats & archaic"es about Cleopatra`s barge. It asked for a GBP30, 000 loan to buy a black-&-cream narrowboat & a small hoard of books. The manager said no. Nevertheless The Book Barge opened six months later & enjoyed the happy patronage of local readers, a growing number of eccentrics & the odd moorhen. Business wasn`t always easy, so one May morning owner Sarah Henshaw set off for six months chugging the length & breadth of the country. Books were bartered for food, accommodation, bathroom facilities & cake. During the journey, the barge suffered a flooded engine, went out to sea, got banned from Bristol &, on several occasions, floated away altogether. This account follows the ebbs & flows of Sarah`s journey as she sought to make her vision of a floating bookshop a reality. ...

With an introduction by novelist Rachel Kushner In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin an epic adventure, & their own coming-of-age stories. In All the Pretty Horses, John Grady Cole`s search for a future takes him across the Mexican border to a job as a ranch hand & an ill-fated romance. The Crossing is the story of sixteen-year-old Billy Parham, who sets off on a perilous journey across the mountains of Mexico, accompanied only by a lone wolf. Eventually the two come together in Cities of the Plain, in a stunning tale of loyalty & love.A true classic of American literature, The Border Trilogy is Cormac Mc Carthy`s award-winning requiem for the American frontier. Beautiful & brutal, filled equally with sorrow & humour, it is a powerful story of two friends growing up in a world where blood & violence are conditions of life. ...

The Borough area of London in 1872 in a series of exceptionally detailed reproductions of old Ordnance Survey street plans for areas of larger cities which have undergone substantial redevelopment in the late 19th or the early 20th century, published in the Alan Godfrey Editions. The plans, printed in back & white, have been taken from the original Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:1, 056 & reproduced at 1:1, 760 – the equivalent of 36 inches (or one yard) to a mile. The maps provide an unrivalled, house-by-house picture of streets & individual buildings with inner courtyards, outbuildings, pavements, covered passages, etc. Many important institutions are named; within the National Galley on Trafalgar Square even the individual rooms (the map is from 1871, so no French Impressionists as yet!). On the reverse are historical notes about the area covered by the map, plus extracts from contemporary street directories. These maps provide a fascinating addition to Alan Godfrey’s huge series of some 2, 000 titles presenting reproductions of street plans at taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping at 1:2, 500 (25” to 1 mile) & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). ...

Six interlocking stories. One spellbinding novel. The year is 2013, & Hong Kong`s greatest detective is dying. For fifty years, Inspector Kwan quietly solved cases while the world changed around him. Now his partner Detective Lok has come to his deathbed for help with one final case. Where there is murder, there is humanity. This bold & intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, race, class, jealousy & revenge in one of the most intriguing nations in the world. This is the story of a man who let justice shine in the space between black & white. This is the story of Hong Kong. ...

Where there is murder, there is humanity. Hong Kong`s greatest detective, Inspector Kwan, is dying. For the past fifty years he has been quietly solving crimes while the world changed around him. Now on his deathbed, his partner Detective Lok needs help with one final case. Through the story of six different but interlocking murders, this bold & intricate crime novel spans five decades of love, honour, jealousy & revenge, in one of the world`s most intriguing nations. ...

In this delightful, funny & moving first novel, a librarian & a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road. Lucy Hull, a 26-year-old children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both kidnapper & kidnapped when her favourite patron, 10-year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly anti-gay classes. Lucy, a rebel at heart beneath her librarian's exterior, stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after hours, with a knapsack of provisions & an escape plan. Desperate to save him from the Drakes, Lucy allows herself to be hijacked by Ian. The odd pair embark on an improvised road trip from Missouri to Vermont, with ferrets & an inconvenient boyfriend thrown in their path. Along the way, Lucy struggles to make peace with her Russian immigrant father & his fugitive past, & is forced to use his shady connections to escape discovery. But is it just Ian who is running away? Who is the strange man on their tail? & should Lucy be trying to save a boy from his own parents? ...