A Time Of Gifts in the Bookshop

A Time Of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor

"I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading Lily Christine and Gibbon and gossiping with kindred lotus-eaters under the willow-branches." - Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts

 

Christopher Columbus in the Bookshop

Christopher Columbus by Ladybird

"I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood." - Sebastian Barry