Hippies From Hell in the Bookshop

The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

"The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own..." - Nicolas Mosley

Portraits in the Bookshop

The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry

"People with books can easily find a date on the title page verso." - The bookseller

 "When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life’s subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic." - Julian Barnes