Secret Trail in the Bookshop

The Long Take by Robin Robertson

"Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left..." - Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth

Hard-boiled Wonderland in the Bookshop

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

"Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life." - Christopher Paolini

Hamilton's Hats in the Bookshop

The Beezer Book

"This book will not supply an answer to these deep issues , but I believe that it may open the door to them by a crack-albeit only by a crack." - Roger Penrose