The Bookshop BookFrom the oldest bookshop in the world, to the smallest you could imagine, 'The Bookshop Book' examines the history of books, talks to authors about their favourite places, and looks at over 200 weirdly wonderful bookshops across six continents (sadly, we've yet to build a bookshop down in the South Pole).

or will ever be able

radical visionaries and timeless storytellers

and perfectly preserved woolly mammoth

Each chapter features a meal

rebellious and yet a strong

to his voiceless

The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just twenty years old

but also how the Romans thought about themselves and their achievements

a cure for leprosy has finally been found

' New York Times

putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake

Especially when their motley staff includes a temperamental French chef