Mushrooms growing in the Bookshop

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

"I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day."

The Way Home in the Bookshop

Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships." - Jorge Luis Borges

Mind Control in the Bookshop

Gillig's London Guide for American Travellers 

"[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in love and better. All day long when I was busy [...], I had my unfinished novel personified almost as a secret companion and accomplice following me like a shadow wherever I went, whatever I did." - Muriel Spark