The Age of Reason in the Bookshop

"When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values..." - Simone de Beauvoir

Loving the Alien in the Bookshop

"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee." - Bernard Cornwell