This Smiling Corner in the Bookshop

This Smiling Corner - Stories From Sandwich Including Richborough and Sandwich Bay

"The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place." - Arnold Bennett

 

Time's Arrow in the Bookshop

Time's Arrow by Martin Amis

"Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannot possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain." - Arnold Bennett