Raban's already substantial reputation rested on a series of books that found shelf-room in bookshops' Travel sections, and were united by their fascination with water: he steered a skiff through the rich soup of the Mississippi in Old Glory, sailed solo around Britain in Coasting, crossed the Atlantic in a container ship in Hunting Mister Heartbreak, and in Bad Land, prayed for rain.
In what looked like a family media room, Mr. Hicks found shelves holding framed photographs.
Faithful customers have found shelves empty and resorted to higher-priced rivals.
Ben Shickel went grocery shopping in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and found shelves had been cleaned out.
Yet here you'll find shelf upon shelf of large jars filled with turgid liquids and strange manmade specimens; pages torn from books and magazines; a telephone cord; chunks of pink insulation; a smiley face.
In every toy store in Paris, you find shelf upon shelf of precisely rendered and particularized Imperial chasseurs and drummer boys and dragoons and grenadiers--the Grande Armee in miniature, bayonets fixed, ready to charge.
What George Orwell described in his essay, Decline of the English Murder, as the nation's "all-prevailing hypocrisy" should ensure that true crime will always find shelf space beside its fictional brothers and sisters.
She recalls visits to bookshops where she would find "shelves and shelves of misery memoir and all these women in black veils with camels walking in the background and titles like I Was Sold Into Marriage".
She recalls visits to bookshops where she would find "shelves and shelves of misery memoir and all these women in black veils with camels walking in the background and titles like I Was Sold Into Marriage". She smiles flatly.
PICTURE a cartoon: a woman opens a door labeled "computer room" only to find shelves of loose-leaf binders and a surprised group of men in lab coats shuffling papers.
That's to say, an increasing number of people are being referred by their GPs to the local library, where they'll find shelves or "reading pharmacies" set aside for literature deemed relevant to their condition.
