We’re not talking about rooms that are just full of books. We’re talking about bookshops in barns,disused factoriesconverted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boatson busesand in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshopsundercover bookshopsthis-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops. Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastienin Mongoliawho sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that’s invented the world’s first antiquarian book vending machine. And that’s just the beginning. From the oldest bookshop in the worldto the smallest you could imagineThe Bookshop Book examines the history of bookstalks to authors about their favourite placesand looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadlywe’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole). The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world. — \