books about bookstores

Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

If you like mysteries and you like books, there’s a collection of stories you should know about. Bibliomysteries: Volume Two, edited by Otto Penzler and to be published in August by Pegasus, is just what the title implies: a collection of crime stories about rare books, bookshops, libraries, manuscripts, magical books,…

BookTribAugust 1, 2018

Nonfiction

Oh How Quaint to Own a Bookshop in a Scottish Village: Not!

“There is a stereotype of the impatient, intolerable, antisocial proprietor….There are exceptions, of course, and many booksellers do not conform to this type. Sadly, I do,” admits Shaun Bythell. From the very start of the The Diary of a Bookseller (Melville House) author Shaun Bythell is anything but an idyllic bookstore…

Rebecca ProulxSeptember 5, 2018

BooksToScreen Fiction Miscellany Pop Culture

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

If you have read The Bookshop (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Penelope Fitzgerald, you will want to see the movie to answer some questions: How can a movie portray a book’s delicately described inner states? How can subtle emotions and flitting feelings be shown on the screen? And if you have seen…

Joanna PoncavageSeptember 14, 2018

Fiction

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

Natalie Harper grew up around books: “When she was very small, her mother used to tell her that books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters were living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love, finding trouble, working out their problems. Even sitting…

Chelsea CicconeJuly 7, 2020

Fiction

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

What is your first scary memory? For me, it was the horrible murder of a family by the hands of a stranger that took place in my hometown of Aurora, Colorado. I won’t go into the details – it would be a spoiler alert. But like me, author Matthew Sullivan…

Camille Di MaioJuly 6, 2017

Listicles Romance

A Bouquet of Books: Spring’s Most Anticipated Romances

As we brace ourselves to social distance for an uncertain length of time, couldn’t we all use something positive to look forward to in the nearer term? And what could be more uplifting than a good romance? BookTrib has invited romance novelist Adriana Herrera to give us her picks of…

Adriana HerreraApril 8, 2020

Author Spotlight Book Club Network Fiction

Amy Meyerson’s Tempest in a California Bookshop

A romance, a quest, and a literary adventure, Amy Meyerson’s debut novel The Bookshop of Yesterdays (Park Row) introduces a young woman in furious pursuit of the past. In the novel, just released in paperback, Miranda Brooks, named for the heroine of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, is a history teacher…

Claudia KeenanMay 7, 2019

books about bookstores

Love Mysteries? Love Books? Here’s a Collection For You

Oh How Quaint to Own a Bookshop in a Scottish Village: Not!

Book-to-Screen on Trials of Bookshop Ownership

Step Inside “The Lost and Found Bookshop” Where Joy Never Yields to Struggle

Author Camille Di Maio is Haunted by Matthew Sullivan’s ‘Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore’

A Bouquet of Books: Spring’s Most Anticipated Romances

Amy Meyerson’s Tempest in a California Bookshop

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