Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in the Bookshop

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R. L. Stevenson

"In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves." - Robert Louis Stevenson

 

The Thirties in the Bookshop

The Thirties by Juliet Gardiner

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein