Poetry in the Bookshop

French provincial cooking by Elizabeth David

Michael's Bookshop is closed on bank holiday Monday

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. So medicine, law, business, engineering... these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love... these are what we stay alive for." - Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Love Lies Bleeding in the Bookshop

"Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything." - Aldous Huxley

A Wild Sheep Chase by H Murakami