Shadow Lines: Searching For the Book Beyond the Shelf
English
By (author): Nicholas Royle
Shadow Lines very much celebrates the world of books Telegraph
Nicholas Royles love of second-hand books and the inclusions he finds inside them, their presence betrayed by shadow lines, is about making connections. Someone has scribbled a number in a book? Hell text or call. An old address? Hell return the book to where it used to live. Follow him as he walks between bookshops, reading as he goes, on the hunt for treasure, for ways to make us feel closer to the books on our shelves, to each other and to our own lives.
Share in Royles enthusiasm for the Rev W Awdrys Railway Series, Penguin Modern Stories and Paul Austers cult classic, The New York Trilogy, as well as books in art and film.
The brilliant follow-up to the instant classic, White Spines.
Praise for Shadow Lines
What links Bin Ladens bodyguard to an Oxfam bookshop in London?What links Bin Ladens bodyguard to an Oxfam bookshop in London?. In Shadow Lines, Nicholas Royle tracks down the owners of objects slipped into second-hand books with amusing and surprising results. Ian Sansom The Telegraph
I havent laughed harder with a book for a long time. Nick Duerden Observer
If you love books, bookshops and browsing, this is your perfect all-year gift head to your happy place with a copy Shadow Lines today! (Note: inclusions not supplied.)
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