Charlotte Stretch Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Published in French as Zazie dans le métro, this is by far Raymond Queneau's best-known book.
One of the first research books we read was the Complete Guide to Starting and Running a Bookshop, published in 2003 by the Booksellers Association.
Victoria Segal Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Published in the year that saw apartheid come into force in South Africa, Paton's novel follows the Reverend Stephen Kumalo on to the streets of Johannesburg as he attempts to find his son, Absalom.
In 2012, Neptune Press – the publishing arm of Bloomsbury's Atlantis Bookshop – published a short biography of Montalban entitled Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St Giles, written by Anglo-Australian Wiccan Julia Philips.
Buy Leviathan, or The Whale at the Guardian bookshop First published in London in 1851 (in order to register its copyright in America), Melville's book mystified his British editor, who simply cut out parts he found immoral or blasphemous.
JS Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop First published in Paris, and banned almost everywhere else until the 1960s, Miller's semi-autobiographical stories of sexual liberation no longer seem outrageous, but they are worth fussing over.
"The warehouse, it's old books, things published before ISBN numbers and bar codes, and you never know what might turn up," says Michael Dirda, The Washington Post's former book critic, who rhapsodized about the last-century charm of the Second Story warehouse in "Browse: The World in Bookshops," a book published in Britain last year.
One of my prize possessions is a 560-page dictionary of mat that I found at Grant and Cutler, a specialist languages bookshop in London.The dictionary, published in Moscow in 1997 by one Professor Tatiana Akhmetova, seems to be an academic lexicon rather than a survey of current usage.
Nicola Barr Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Banned when first published in Britain, this novel's eventual appearance here in 1968 signalled the effective end of literary censorship.
At least four Discworld novels were on the drawing board, his assistant Rob Wilkins writes in an afterword to The Shepherd's Crown, which drew crowds of fans to midnight bookshop openings when it was published in the UK on Thursday.
If you are from an English speaking country, the vast majority of books you will come across in bookshops will have been originally published in English.
