Booksellers Favourite Books Of All Time
Sellers of the field play favourites with books perfectly, and personally, pitched Tuesday May 11, 2021
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson
Often my favourite book is the one I’m currently recommending to customers. At present, I’m raving about
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson. I toyed with choosing a classic (
Anne of Green Gables) or a Booker winner (
Girl, Woman, Other) as my favourite read, but nothing beats discovering a hidden gem. A book that slips stealth-like into your hand by an author you’ve never heard of.
As a bookseller I’m constantly racing to finish one book and start another. Which is why it is a rare and beautiful moment when, as happened with
Frederik Wissink
I write this on the day we come out of lockdown. Shops and pubs and restaurants are opening, there was both snow yesterday and tropical sunshine. The weather is confused, I am confused; both of us caught up in some kind of cosmic bi-polarity. And yet this is what I know. A year after the going in and now a year later the coming out, a little list of what has given me pleasure over the past 12 months.
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Propagating plants. Chinese money plants make this very easy. They are hard to kill, have charming leaves like round disks and survive transportation even when they fly out of your bicycle basket. Having non-meat- and non-fish-eating children (a result of Netflix’s
The funniest sketch Iâve ever seen â¦
The Burgundy Loaf sketch from Mr Show. Itâs so deeply stupid. In a way, how dare they?
The funniest book Iâve ever read â¦
I love The First Bad Man by Miranda July. All the characters are hugely flawed, but itâs never mean or judgmental.
The funniest film Iâve ever seen â¦
I cry-laugh at any Laurel and Hardy film. No one I know enjoys them, which kills me.
The funniest person I know â¦
Jamie and Tash Demetriou are unbelievably funny. You listen to them in awe and forget to speak.