| International Standard Book Number |
9780063516625
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063516624
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
381.4/5/002
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| Personal Name |
Clapham, Katie (Bookseller) author
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| Title Statement |
Receipts from the bookshop : a bookseller's year in an English seaside town / Katie Clapham.
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| Imprint |
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
294 pages ; 22 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
Many of us dream of owning a bookshop but for Katie Clapham it happened by accident, when she moved back to the seaside town she grew up in and went into business with her mum. Once a week, Katie sits behind the counter and chronicles the day's comings and goings - mostly people who were actually hoping to catch her mother. The triumphs here are small but hard-won: a tea crisis averted, a book title correctly identified from a cryptic clutch of clues. Not to mention the emotional rollercoaster of being named the 7th best bookshop in the country by 'The Times' in a week where daily takings came to around ?16.98. Customers appear for a browse and a chat, in search of a recommendation or the perfect gift. Others enter the shop for more unexpected reasons - to borrow a screwdriver, locate a priest or simply to ask if there's 'a nice place for an omelette around here'. Each day brings its own joys and frustrations, though not always in equal measur
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Clapham, Katie (Bookselle
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Bookstores Great Britai
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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