The Peepshow in the Bookshop

The Peepshow The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale

"In every other age and class man is held responsible for his reading, and not reading responsible for man. The books a man or woman reads are less the making of character than the expression of it." - Kate Summerscale

 

The Journals of Sylvia Plath in the Bookshop

"I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already." - Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones