The Marriage Portrait in the Bookshop

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

"But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself." - Charlotte Brontë

 

But Not The Hippopotamus in the Bookshop

Asterix the Gaul by René Goscinny

"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate." - Sandra Boynton