Mog in the Bookshop

Dashiell Hammett and Zadie Smith

'I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.' - Daniel Handler

 

The Essex Serpent in the Bookshop

"I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveller." - Sue Townsend