Girl With Green Eyes in the Bookshop

South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

"Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work." - Wilbur Smith

A Legacy of Spies in the Bookshop

The Cat in the Hat Songbook by Dr. Seuss

"The only thing that matters is, first, the experience of being in the story, moving through it. Then any interpretation you like. If it's yours, then that's the right one, because what's in a book is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader gets out of it." - William Golding