Author Description

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.