THE BOOKSHOP BOOK - JEN CAMPBELL

 Every bookshop has a story.

We’re not just talking about rooms full of books. We’re talking about bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold-out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is-the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops.

Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France. Meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who 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 world, to the smallest you could imagine, The Bookshop Book examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over three hundred weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we’ve yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).

The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.

The Bookshop Book is the official book of the Books Are My Bag Campaign 
Published by Constable / Little, Brown, 2014. (Korean translation published 2017.)

Buy the hardback: Bookshop.org, Foyles, Blackwell's, Waterstones, Hive, Barnes and Noble
signed copies available here, with worldwide shipping.

Preorder the paperback (publishing August 2021): Bookshop.org, Foyles, Blackwell's, Waterstones, Hive, The Book Depository
signed copies available here, with worldwide shipping

Contact details
For press, publicity and event enquiries, please email Grace Vincent at Little, Brown
For sales enquiries, please email Louise Carleton at Little, Brown
For foreign rights enquiries, please email Charlie Campbell at Kingsford Campbell
You can contact Jen about The Bookshop Book via email.