Sentence examples for bookshop set from inspiring English sources

Eric Brown Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in the fictional country of Castalia, Hesse's last novel tells of a young man's rise through the hierarchies of an elite boarding school.

John Mullan Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in Peccavistan, a country that "is and is not Pakistan", Shame describes the conflict between two families, the Harrapas and the Hyders.

John Mullan Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set over the course of a single day, Bomber charts the progress of an ill-fated RAF raid on Nazi Germany.

Adam Newey Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in 1819 in a Parisian boarding house, where Old Goriot is the butt of his fellow boarders' mockery for having bankrupted himself through supporting his well-off married daughters.

Formed as a reaction to the closure of the local Ottakar's store, the Big Green Bookshop set itself up as a shamelessly community-focused resource: a kind of literary Cheers, where everyone knows your name.

PD Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in Manchester in the near-future and in a phantasmagorical virtual reality, Vurt is the story of Scribble, his gang the Stash Riders and his attempt to find his sister Desdemona, who is lost in a drug-induced VR.

Word Power 43-45 West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB, 0131-662 9112 The novelist Ali Smith once described Word Power as a "giant-defier" and that's very much what this radical bookshop sets out to be, taking on contemporary culture and politics from a leftist perspective, while also offering a refreshing alternative to the large bookshop chains.

Although she was a stage actress initially, it was through two idiosyncratic television series that Greig rose to prominence: Dylan Moran's anarchic bookshop-set comedy Black Books, and the much-loved, surreally tinged hospital drama Green Wing.

Over the years, she worked in a bakery; a bookshop, even set up a translation agency to support her boys.

The bookshop fire set the stage for a moment of national catharsis; it was a small problem that could be fixed in a world of intractable conflicts.

I read it, loved it, and bought all the Bradbury books I could from the travelling bookshop that set up once a term in my school.