Sentence examples for a bookshop opened from inspiring English sources

A bookshop opened for the first time in nearly two decades.

Last year we rounded up some of the world's most weird and wonderful bookshops – from a bookshop opened by Alice Munro in the 1960s to one in the island of Santorini started by drunk Oxford students – but here's a selection of favourite bookshops from our readers, together with our own picks.

Fiona Beckett This legendary bookshop opened in 1979 and is still a distinctive, exciting place, stocking an ever-changing blend of fiction and non-fiction – perfect for that unexpected novel or history book that could not be chanced on browsing the web.

In Krakow last week we happened upon the building that housed the world's first bookshop, opened in 1610 and still operating as a bookstore today.

This popular bookshop opened at the height of Spain's financial crisis, in a disused button factory just off Carrer del Parlament, which Carrión says is "the most hipster street in Barcelona".

Photograph: Devid Levene When the London Review Bookshop opened in 2003, many people questioned the wisdom ("Are you completely mad?") of opening an independent bookshop at a time when they seemed to be folding at the rate of one a week.

Only one other bookshop opened here, and now it is gone.

The concession, named The Russian Bookshop, opened in March 2012.

To this day, the strategic name-dropping of my great-grandfather in a rare bookshop opens the liquor cabinet.

Last year, 50 new independent bookshops opened across the UK but 72 closed, confirming an overall decline for the third year running.

Bookshops opened their doors early today for readers to get their hands on JK Rowling's first novel for adults.