The Bookshop

The melancholy of defeat She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct. As gentleness is not (necessarily) kindness, courage, hard work and virtue is not invariably rewarded, I learned as a child listening to George Brassens’s song about the poor brave little white horse tha......more

‘They’re saying that you’re about to open a bookshop. That shows you’re ready to chance some unlikely things.’ An idyllic little bookshop stuffed with old hardbacks displayed on handcrafted shelves in an aging building--possibly haunted--on a crisp ocean coastline seems to be a common denominator in......more

Me ha encantado. Es una historia sencilla, breve y triste. Una tragicomedia que habla de la soledad y de las dificultades para salir adelante en un pueblecillo pequeño en el que las reglas están estrictamente marcadas y es imposible huir de ellas. Es un libro extraño porque no trata de crear grandes a......more

If you believe that people are fundamentally somewhat selfish and unkind, this is the book for you. Bonus points for book representation. I don't really think that, because if I did I would be forced to give into a lifetime of sorrow and cynicism and suffering and other alliterative negativity, but I......more

As a child I often said to my mother: "That's not fair!" She would respond with : "Life's not fair". Florence Green, the main character in The Bookshop, would certainly agree. Florence tried to expand the minds of the inhabitants of Hardborough without success. The ethos of this village just wasn't b......more