We could create a fabulous bookshop like that one in Seattle... .. "Well," said Juliette, "why don't we?" And that was that.
Unsure what to do, he hit upon the idea of combining his two passions – travel and books – to create a literary bookshop with a global perspective.
Together they have created a unique bookshop that gathers, preserves, catalogs and sells books of all genres -- except how-to and self-improvement books, none of which shall cross the threshold of this sacred place.
"It was in Zoellner's bookshop in Amsterdam," he writes, "that I realized I wanted to create a philosophy so I could die happily".
Several readers and authors have already created a personal page – "a bookshop" – showcasing 12 books they like.
Essays on what writers' lives are like in countries around the world, flash fiction, translated extracts from multiple languages, blogs about African feminism and culture, the story behind the story of creating a novel, interviews with bookshops, recipes inspired by fiction, columns about notebooks, and literary mixtapes – these are just some of the treats we have in store.
"I hoped that by creating a unique retail space, customers would realise how independent bookshops can offer a far more pleasurable shopping experience than they're likely to find online or on the discount shelves at supermarkets".
LA Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop The winner of the 2008 Orange prize created a crystalline vision of early 17th-century Denmark in this vivid panorama of life at the court of King Christian IV.
Lisa Allardice Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Hardy's breakthrough Wessex novel, in which he tells a bundle of stories while creating a whole world (which, as Hardy reminds us, is forever gone).
On April 30th Barnes & Noble said it was creating a subsidiary, called NewCo for now, into which it would put Nook and its "college" business, which has 641 bookshops on American campuses.
