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

The Frackers in the Bookshop

"My instinct is to multiply books and articles and plays. I constantly gloat over the number of words I have written in a given period." - Arnold Bennett