Books set in a bookshop
Bookshops – those gorgeous places of dreams, literary locations and adventures. Where you can sit and dream for hours, wander the isles and meet your next favourite reads. Whether you love the old ones, the new ones, the local ones or the big major ones, a bookshop is a haven for bookworms. Imagine living in one, spending your whole life in one? Well now you can immerse yourself in one via the pages of these picks. And I tell you something – you might just lose yourself in one you’ve not visited before.
The Little Bookshop On The Seine
Author/Guide:Rebecca Raisin
How do you fancy coming to work in a bookshop in the middle of Paris? Sarah Smith works in a bookshop in Ashford, Connecticut and then gets the chance to work in Paris – also in a bookshop. Now if this doesn’t sound like a dream come true for any booklover worth their sail, then we don’t know what does.
The Little Bookshop on the Corner
Author/Guide:Rebecca Raisin
Remember the little bookshop on the Seine?T his is the one in Ashford, Connecticut where Sarah worked before her move to PAris. It’s got a reading room, Books piled high on every surface and a nearby Gingerbread cafe to keep bookworms warm and toasty in their imaginary and fictional worlds.
The Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After
Author/Guide:Jenny Colgan
Nina works in a Birmingham library which is being downsized and so feeling lost, she takes up an offer of working on a bookshop bus in the highlands of Scotland. Working with books everyday, driving around some of the most remote yet stunning countryside in the British Isles, plenty of reading stops along the way….
The Library of Shadows
Author/Guide: Mikkel Birkegaard
There are certain books that if you read them, they give you special powers to access people’s thoughts and feelings…In a bookshop in Copenhagen, there is a society of book lovers who know this secret well.
Now although on the fantasy scale of bookshop locations, this little number really intrigued me as it shows the magic of books. How by tracing your finger along the s;ine, the voices inside the book can talk to you. Books which whisper as you walk past, books which can read your mind and allow you to read others’
The bookshop itself in the setting for a secret bookclub, is a maze of ladders and curved stairwells and books in glass cases. I felt the frissons of excitement when I read this.
The Little Paris Bookshop
An ode to books and bookshops everywhere. There is a book apothecary in this delightful tale – a man who thinks books can heal and that by reading the right book, it can help make you feel better and soothe the troubled souls of the reader.
“With all due respect , what you read in the long term is more important that the man you marry”
There is a journey from Paris down the canals and waterways of France to the south, through Cuisery – the city of books along the way. Now a visit there should be the ultimate prescribed solution to any reading lulls – the Literary Apothecary will heal anyone and everyone who reads it.
The Shadow of the Wind – The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1
No post about books can be written without including this beauty. Daniel may remember when he first went to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and I remember when I first read it – on a holiday in Spain and the Spanish language has never read so lyrical! I immediately bought it in English too and headed over to Barcelona to see the book’s literary locations in all their glory. Imagine a Cemetery of Forgotten Books Tucked away in Barcelona;’s back streets? I still shiver with excitement every time I think about this.
I cannot describe the pure joy and excitement of reading this book – it sings, it opens its heart to book lovers everywhere and its setting is the most ultimate book lovers destination ever.
Oh and not forgetting –
There are two books – one that we’re really looking forward to and another we keep reading to make us smile…How To Find Love in A Bookshop and Funny Things People Say in a Bookshop
If you can’t get to a bookshop one day, these beauties above will transport you there and make you smile. Even the front cover on Veronica Henry’s book makes us feel warm and gooey inside for the adventures which will be tucked away inside. And the funny things people say in bookshops? I actually heard someone ask for ‘the book with the hole in it’ turns out it was the HB of Haruki Murakami ‘s Pinball. Jen if you ever need a few more anecdotes, I’m sure you won’t go short anytime soon.
