Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor. From 'Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?' to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next

when I still do

sip your way through Islay's whisky distilleries

Living on the margins of India's urban sprawls

Bread is an everyday food

the go-for-broke approach to business that has caused so many computer companies to win big (or go belly up)

like many of us

Gripping mercilessly argued deeply informed and moving fluidly between critical theory political policy and pop culture Kids These Days will wake you up make you angry and change how you see your place in the world

bent on reigniting a centuries-old war

but is this irregular party good enough to battle demons

Ever since Mashiro's shocking revelation

An AI looks into the past

making it feasible that 1 = 0