Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Hitchings, Henry

Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781782272960)

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Format: Paperback
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Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Hitchings, Henry

Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World

$16.95
Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World by Hitchings, Henry

Browse: Love Letters to Bookshops Around the World

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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, Sasa Stanisic, and Juan Gabriel V squez.

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

Author: Henry Hitchings
ISBN-10: 1782272968
ISBN-13: 9781782272960
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Language: English
Published: 08/06/2019
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d
By Henry Hitchings
By Henry Hitchings
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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.

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