The Last Samurai in the Bookshop

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

"Well, there’s good fiction. There are wonderful books, and yes, it’s good to read them. Maybe if you’ve read a lot of fiction, you reach this stage of satiation, and you start thinking well, what’s the point, but then you talk to people who’ve read barely any, and you realize that things you take for granted if you’ve read a lot of fiction—unreliable narrators, how language frames your perception of people—things that seem obvious to the point of banality, except they’re not to people who aren’t in the habit of reading fiction." - Helen DeWitt

 

Paris Versus New York in the Bookshop

Paris Versus New York by Vahram Muratyan

"A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author." - Marcel Proust

 

Derek Jarman in the Bookshop

Derek Jarman: A Portrait

"All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap." - David Eddings