Browse: The World in Bookshops

Henry Hitchings - Edited by - NEW UNREAD FIRST EDITION HARDBACK

ISBN 10: 1782272127 / ISBN 13: 9781782272120

Published by Pushkin Press, 2016

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Fifteen writers tell you about their favourite bookshops. A highly original brief and utterly fascinating for the book lover. NEW & UNREAD FIRST HARDCOVER EDITION. Jacket also in a new codition. Seller Inventory # ABE-1591532143012

Bibliographic Details

Title: Browse: The World in Bookshops

Publisher: Pushkin Press

Publication Date: 2016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

A celebration of the greatest kind of shop in the world, by an award-winning cast of writers including Ali Smith, Michael Dirda, Elif Shafak and Daniel Kehlmann.

A cabinet of curiosities, a time machine, a treasure trove - we love bookshops because they possess a unique kind of magic. In Browse, Henry Hitchings asks fifteen writers from around the world to reveal their favourite bookshops, each conjuring a specific time and place. These inquisitive, enchanting pieces are a collective celebration of bookshops - for anyone who has ever fallen under their spell. Contributors include Alaa Al Aswany, Stefano Benni, Michael Dirda, Daniel Kehlmann, Andrey Kurkov, Yiyun Li, Pankaj Mishra, Dorthe Nors, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Elif Shafak, Ian Sansom, Iain Sinclair, Ali Smith, Saša Stanišic, and Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

A dazzling collection of original essays about the bookshop by fifteen bestselling international authors.

About the Author:

Henry Hitchings is an award-winning writer, reviewer and critic. He has written for the Guardian, London Review of Books, TLS, Financial Times and New Statesman, and is currently the Evening Standard's theatre critic. He is the author of several acclaimed books on language, literature and culture, including Dr Johnson's Dictionary, How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read and The Language Wars. In 2008, he was shortlisted for the title of Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year, and in the same year his book The Secret Life of Words won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.