The Beast Within the Bookshop

The Beast Within by Émile Zola

"I want to depict the artist's struggle with reality, the sheer effort of creation which goes into every work of art, the blood and tears involved in giving of one's flesh, in trying to make something that lives...the endless the defeats, the struggle with the angel." - Émile Zola

 

The Moronic Inferno in the Bookshop

The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis

"Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn