Thomas Penman in the Bookshop

A Clergyman's Daughter by George Orwell

"to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing" - David Lodge

Birthday Letters in the Bookshop

Ships of Dover Folkestone Deal and Thanet by T. W. E. Roche

"I often carry things to read

so that I will not have to look at

the people." - Charles Bukowski

 "This went on for a few minutes, but to save paper and therefore the trees and therefore the forests and therefore the environment and therefore the world I have tried to keep it short." - David Walliams, Gangsta Granny

Giraffe Found Browsing Natural History Books

"No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends" - Roald Dahl The Giraffe and The Pelly and Me