{"product_id":"the-booksellers-tale-by-martin-latham","title":"The Bookseller's Tale by Martin Latham","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780141991238\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenguin, October 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e348 pages, Paperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e AND \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEVENING STANDARD\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A joy. Each chapter instantly became my favourite' David Mitchell, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Wonderful' Lucy Mangan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The right book has a neverendingness, and so does the right bookshop.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of our love affair with books, whether we arrange them on our shelves, inhale their smell, scrawl in their margins or just curl up with them in bed. Taking us on a journey through comfort reads, street book stalls, mythical libraries, itinerant pedlars, radical pamphleteers, extraordinary bookshop customers and fanatical collectors, Canterbury bookseller Martin Latham uncovers the curious history of our book obsession - and his own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart cultural history, part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir, this is the tale of one bookseller and many, many books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIf ferreting through bookshops is your idea of heaven, you'll get the same pleasure from this treasure trove of a book' Jake Kerridge, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47548222439586,"sku":null,"price":240.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/81WnP6J91IL._SY342.jpg?v=1787309415","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/the-booksellers-tale-by-martin-latham","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}