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@nationalbooktokens.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:32 PM

Our #WeLoveBookshops feature invites fabulous guests to talk about the magic of bookshops 📚🪄

This month we're joined by the brilliant Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Disappearers đź“–

#ChooseBookshops @thebookerprizes.com

"So, it turns out that I misunderstood author Roberto Bolaño when he said that a writer's home is a bookstore. He meant books, but I thought he meant writers, as I've always thought of the bookstore as more my home than my actual home.

This is where I could live as many lives as I wanted, or as many as I could pick from the bookshelf. The original safe space; where I could travel a thousand miles by simply turning a page. I remember going to the bookstore every day to read a few pages of The Satanic Verses because I was too scared to take it home and – this is important – the bookstore allowing me.

I love the perfume of new books on the shelf, the musk of old books, the big fat cat on the windowsill minding his own business, the bookseller excitedly telling you what to read next. It’s the only place where you enter as one person and leave as someone else."
@nationalbooktokens.bsky.socialSep 5, 2026, 4:45 PM

Our #WeLoveBookshops feature invites fabulous guests to talk about the magic of bookshops 📚🪄

This month, we’re joined by Sarah Morrell, author of A Head Full of Magic, to chat with us about her brilliant local, Read. in Holmfirth 💛

#ChooseBookshops

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